Linking Decision Theory and Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment: Tradeoffs Between Compliance and Efficacy for Waterborne Disease Interventions.

ABSTRACT: Achieving health gains from the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals of universal coverage for water and sanitation will require interventions that can be widely adopted and maintained. Effectiveness-how an intervention performs based on actual use-as opposed to efficacy will therefore be central to evaluations of new and existing interventions. Incomplete compliance-when people do not always use the intervention and are therefore exposed to contamination-is thought to be responsible for the lower-than-expected risk reductions observed from water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions based on their efficacy at removing pathogens. We explicitly incorporated decision theory into a quantitative microbial risk assessment model. Specifically, we assume that the usability of household water treat

SUBMITTER: Hayashi MAL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8634750 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature