The Association between Anthropometric Failure and Toilet Types: A Cross-Sectional Study from India.

ABSTRACT: Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 aims to end open defecation by 2030 by ensuring universal access to private household toilets. However, private toilets might not be feasible for poor households. As a result, policy makers and academics have suggested well-managed shared sanitation facilities as an alternative solution. Less is known about the associations between shared sanitation use and health. Using data from the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey from 2019 to 2021, we estimated the association between usual defecation location and child anthropometry outcomes among children under 2 years in India. The primary exposure was usual defecation location at the household level. We compared both shared improved toilet use and open defecation to private, improved toilet use. We u

SUBMITTER: Jain A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10077020 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature