Estimating inequities in sanitation-related disease burden and estimating the potential impacts of pro-poor targeting

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to model for 10 low-income countries (Kenya, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India and Tanzania) in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: The distribution of sanitation-related health burden by wealth quintile. The distribution of health benefits for targeting different wealth quintile groups. The spatial distribution of sanitation-related health burden and benefits. This work used existing household survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for the 10 countries to estimate disparities in sanitation-related services, exposures, susceptibility, burden and impact of infrastructure improvements