Effect of a community intervention with pit latrines in five districts of Amhara, Ethiopia

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 592-599

  Ngondi, Jeremiah ^a,b   Teferi, Tesfaye ^b   Gebre, Teshome ^b   Shargie, Estifanos B ^b   Zerihun, Mulat ^b   Ayele, Berhan ^b   Adamu, Liknaw ^c   King, Jonathan D ^b   Cromwell, Elizabeth A ^b   Emerson, Paul M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^c FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Amhara; Ethiopia; Latrines; Millennium Development Goals; Sanitation; Trachoma

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; SOCIAL STATUS; TRACHOMA;

ADULT; CHILD; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH; SANITATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOILET FACILITIES; TRACHOMA;

AMHARA; ETHIOPIA;

EID: 77950654231     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02500.x     Document Type: Article

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