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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2021

Evidence-Based Health Behavior Interventions for Cholera: Lessons from an Outbreak Investigation in India.

Avinash Deoshatwar, Dawal Salve, Varanasi Gopalkrishna, Anuj Kumar, Uday Barve, Madhuri Joshi, Savita Katendra, Varsha Dhembre, Shradha Maheshwari, Rajlakshmi Viswanathan

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Avinash DeoshatwarEpidemiology Group, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Virology, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Dawal SalvePublic Health Department, Government of Maharashtra, Nashik, Maharashtra, India.
Varanasi GopalkrishnaEnteric Viruses Group, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Anuj KumarICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Uday BarveIntegrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Nashik, Maharashtra, India.
Madhuri JoshiEnteric Viruses Group, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Savita KatendraBacteriology Group, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Varsha DhembreBacteriology Group, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Shradha MaheshwariBacteriology Group, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Rajlakshmi ViswanathanBacteriology Group, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
ICMR-National Institute of Virology · INGovernment of Maharashtra · INNational Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In rural India, since 2014, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) has ensured construction of more than 100 million toilets and is now focusing on reinforcement of sanitation behaviors. We report a cholera outbreak in a remote village in western India where open defecation was implicated in causation. A water pipeline was damaged in the vicinity of a stream flowing from a site of open defecation. Despite the availability of a toilet facility in the majority of households (75%), open defecation was widely practiced (62.8%). Many reported not washing hands with soap and water before eating (78.5%) and after defecation (61.1%). The study emphasizes the need for focused health behavior studies and evidence-based interventions to reduce the occurrence of cholera outbreaks. This could be the last lap in the path toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, which aims to "ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all."

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Patient Education as TopicCholeraDisease OutbreaksEvidence-Based PracticeHealth BehaviorHealth Risk BehaviorsHumansIndiaRisk FactorsRural Population

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PMID34695790
PMCPMC8733540
OpenAlexW3209188141

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