An educational intervention for altering water-sanitation behaviors to reduce childhood diarrhea in urban Bangladesh: I. Application of the case-control method for development of an intervention

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 284-292

  Clemens, John D ^a   Stanton, Bonita F ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Diarrhea; Retrospective studies; Sanitation; Water

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD HYGIENE; DIARRHEA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROORGANISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; BIOLOGY; CONTROL GROUPS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; DISEASES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; MEASUREMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTHERN ASIA; STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HANDWASHING; HUMAN; INFANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SANITATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; URBAN POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0023145370     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114528     Document Type: Article

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