Effects of improved drinking water quality on early childhood growth in rural Uttar Pradesh, India: A propensity-score analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Recent randomised controlled trials in Bangladesh and Kenya concluded that household water treatment, alone or in combination with upgraded sanitation and handwashing, did not reduce linear growth faltering or improve other child growth outcomes. Whether these results are applicable in areas with distinct constellations of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) risks is unknown. Analysis of observational data offers an efficient means to assess the external validity of trial findings. We studied whether a water quality intervention could improve child growth in a rural Indian setting with higher levels of circulating pathogens than the original trial sites.

Methods

We analysed a cross-sectional dataset including a microbiological measure of household water quality. All

SUBMITTER: Johri M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324831 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature