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Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health
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This is the introductory article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation.Globally, around 2.4 million deaths (4.2% of all deaths) [1] could be prevented annually if everyone practised appropriate hygiene and had good, reliable sanitation and drinking water.These deaths are mostly of children in developing countries from diarrhoea and subsequent malnutrition, and from other diseases attributable to malnutrition.How is an opportunity to prevent so many deaths (and 6.6% of the global burden of disease in terms of disabilityadjusted life years or DALYs [1]) failing to attract the attention of the international public health community?In this introductory paper to the PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation, we develop the idea that these basic needs are the forgotten foundations of health.The Policy Forum allows health policy makers around the world to discuss challenges and opportunities for improving health care in their societies.
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- Authors
- Bartram, J., & Cairncross, S.
- Venue
- PLoS Medicine
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2010-11-09
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- e1000367
- ISSN
- 1549-1277 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-1676
- OpenAlex
- W2120476202
- Cited by
- 815
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 21.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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