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Measuring Environmental Exposure to Enteric Pathogens in Low-Income Settings: Review and Recommendations of an Interdisciplinary Working Group

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By Radu Ban, Dana Boyd Barr, Joe Brown, John M Colford
| ACS Publications
Background Exposure to enteric pathogens is associated with a heavy disease burden, largely born by young children living in low-income settings.(1) Globally, enteric infections represent the third leading cause of death among children under five, accounting for approximately 589 000 deaths in 2017.(2) Methods to characterize human exposure to enteric pathogens have not been advanced in the same way as they have in other areas of environmental health, such as exposure to air pollution or...
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Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low‐ and middle‐income settings: a retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries

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By Jamie Bartram, Thomas Clasen, John M Colford, Annette Prüss‐Ustün
| Wiley
Original Article Annette Prüss‐Ustün Corresponding Author Department of Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Corresponding Author Annette Prüss‐Ustün , World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
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Implications of WASH Benefits trials for water and sanitation - Authors' reply

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By Benjamin F. Arnold, Clair Null, Stephen Luby, John M Colford
| The Lancet Verified
We appreciate the thoughtful comments from Oliver Cumming and Val Curtis and from Diane Coffey and Dean Spears regarding the Kenya and Bangladesh WASH Benefits trials.1x1Luby, SP, Rahman, M, Arnold, BF et al. Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Lancet Glob Health.
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Positive steps with negative studies in the WASH sector

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By John M Colford
| The Lancet Verified
Despite encouraging evidence about the health benefits of individual water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions,1, 2 much less is known about the benefits of combined or packaged interventions delivered through public-health campaigns and programmes. Rigorous assessment of such combined intervention programmes has many challenges. For example, such assessments usually require a deep understanding of a complicated study design, typically entailing a cluster-randomised trial.
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