Examining the effect of neighborhood sanitation coverage on childhood diarrheal disease in rural Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neighborhood-level sanitation coverage may offer significant indirect protection against diarrheal disease, an observation that has been supported by several studies.

Methods

We analyzed the protective effect of neighborhood sanitation coverage using harmonized data from two studies: a randomized control trial (RCT) examining the effectiveness of improved compound-level sanitation and an observational study that collected information on compounds within 100 m of the RCT study compounds. We developed the Neighborhood Sanitation & Fecal Exposure (NSFE) metric, which estimates the fecal contamination at a study compound based on the demographic and sanitation characteristics of the neighborhood. NSFE is a function of the number of individuals and latrine quality at s

SUBMITTER: Van Wyk H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12825392 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature