Year: 2019
Type: letter
Abstract: We agree with Karen Levy and Joseph Eisenberg that observational studies of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions with carefully designed counterfactuals can play a valuable role in generating evidence on effectiveness, particularly in urban settings. Randomised controlled trials for community-level WASH infrastructure interventions are not always feasible in urban settings, because of the political and logistical constraints of defining treatment and control groups; strong observational designs could help fill the gap.
Source: The Lancet Global Health
Institutions: Tufts University, University of California, Berkeley, Queen Mary University of London, Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research, Blizard Institute, Mathematica Policy Research, Johns Hopkins University, Kenya Medical Research Institute, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, University of California, Davis, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $5,000
Funders: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Boston Foundation for Architecture, Johns Hopkins University, Queen Mary University of London, Department for International Development, UK Government, University of California, Davis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit
OpenAlex ID: W2979389494