Shared sanitation versus individual household latrines: a systematic review of health outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More than 761 million people rely on shared sanitation facilities. These have historically been excluded from international sanitation targets, regardless of the service level, due to concerns about acceptability, hygiene and access. In connection with a proposed change in such policy, we undertook this review to identify and summarize existing evidence that compares health outcomes associated with shared sanitation versus individual household latrines.

Methods and findings

Shared sanitation included any type of facilities intended for the containment of human faeces and used by more than one household, but excluded public facilities. Health outcomes included diarrhoea, helminth infections, enteric fevers, other faecal-oral diseases, trachoma and adverse maternal

SUBMITTER: Heijnen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3990518 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature