The high cost of diarrhoeal illness for urban slum households-a cost-recovery approach: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Rapid urbanisation has often meant that public infrastructure has not kept pace with growth leading to urban slums with poor access to water and sanitation and high rates of diarrhoea with greater household costs due to illness. This study sought to determine the monetary cost of diarrhoea to urban slum households in Kaula Bandar slum in Mumbai, India. The study also tested the hypotheses that the cost of water and sanitation infrastructure may be surpassed by the cumulative costs of diarrhoea for households in an urban slum community. A cohort study using a baseline survey of a random sample followed by a systematic longitudinal household survey. The baseline survey was administered to a random sample of households. The systematic longitudinal survey was administered to every available ho

SUBMITTER: Patel RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3641490 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature