Interventions to improve water quality and supply, sanitation and hygiene practices, and their effects on the nutritional status of children

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Dangour, Alan D ^a   Watson, Louise ^a   Cumming, Oliver ^a   Boisson, Sophie ^a   Che, Yan ^b   Velleman, Yael ^c   Cavill, Sue ^c   Allen, Elizabeth ^a   Uauy, Ricardo ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD RESEARCH   (China)

^c WATERAID   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; GENDER; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REVIEW; SANITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; AGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; META ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HAND DISINFECTION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SANITATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84884178891     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009382.pub2     Document Type: Review

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