The toilet tripod: Understanding successful sanitation in rural India

Health and Place

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 43-51

  O'Reilly, Kathleen ^a   Louiss', Elizabeth ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Global public health; India; Sanitation; Toilet

Indexed keywords

GENDER; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SANITATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INDIA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOILET TRIPOD; WATER QUALITY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HABIT; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HABITS; HUMANS; INDIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOILET FACILITIES;

EID: 84904610851     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.05.007     Document Type: Article

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