ArticleAmerican journal of public health2013
Protective benefits of deep tube wells against childhood diarrhea in Matlab, Bangladesh.
Article in American journal of public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Deep Tubewell Use and Child Diarrhea in Rural Bangladesh: Results from a Prospective Community Surveillance Study.Environmental health perspectives · 2026Article
- Deep tubewell use is associated with increased household microbial contamination in rural Bangladesh: Results from a prospective cohort study among households in rural Bangladesh.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2023Article
- Considering Alternate Pathways of Drinking-Water Contamination: Evidence of Risk Substitution from Arsenic Mitigation Programs in Rural Bangladesh.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Deep tubewell microbial water quality and access in arsenic mitigation programs in rural Bangladesh.The Science of the total environment · 2019Article
- Arsenic exposure in early pregnancy alters genome-wide DNA methylation in cord blood, particularly in boys.Journal of developmental origins of health and disease · 2014Article
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objectivesWe investigated whether deep tube wells installed to provide arsenic-free groundwater in rural Bangladesh have the added benefit of reducing childhood diarrheal disease incidence.
methodsWe recorded cases of diarrhea in children younger than 5 years in 142 villages of Matlab, Bangladesh, during monthly community health surveys in 2005 and 2006. We surveyed the location and depth of 12,018 tube wells and integrated these data with diarrhea data and other data in a geographic information system. We fit a longitudinal logistic regression model to measure the relationship between childhood diarrhea and deep tube well use. We controlled for maternal education, family wealth, year, and distance to a deep tube well.
resultsHousehold clusters assumed to be using deep tube wells were 48.7% (95% confidence interval = 27.8%, 63.5%) less likely to have a case of childhood diarrhea than were other household clusters.
conclusionsIncreased access to deep tube wells may provide dual benefits to vulnerable populations in Matlab, Bangladesh, by reducing the risk of childhood diarrheal disease and decreasing exposure to naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater.
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