Geographical Inequalities in Use of Improved Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation across Sub-Saharan Africa: Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Cross-sectional Survey Data

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Pullan, Rachel L ^a   Freeman, Matthew C ^b   Gething, Peter W ^c   Brooker, Simon J ^a,d  

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

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RELIABILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SAMPLING; SANITATION; URBAN POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY; ANALYSIS; DEFECATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEFECATION; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84900443256     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001626     Document Type: Article

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