Ethnicity and access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in Bangladesh: a study using MICS data and policy reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are crucial to human health. Reducing inequalities and ensuring universal access to WASH are essential to achieving the agenda of sustainable development. We aimed to measure access to WASH among ethnic minority populations in Bangladesh and understand the situation and factors affecting WASH practices among them. Additionally, we reviewed policy related to WASH to highlight the inequality faced by ethnic minority populations.

Methodology

We utilized data from the multiple indicator cluster survey-2019. We used the chi-square test for bivariate analysis and multilevel mixed-effect logistic regression analyses to identify the effect of ethnicity on WASH in Bangladesh after controlling selected covariates. Furthe

SUBMITTER: Alam MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11460139 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature