Does household access to improved water and sanitation in infancy and childhood predict better vocabulary test performance in Ethiopian, Indian, Peruvian and Vietnamese cohort studies?

BMJ Open

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Dearden, Kirk A ^a   Brennan, Alana T ^b,c   Behrman, Jere R ^d   Schott, Whitney ^d   Crookston, Benjamin T ^e   Humphries, Debbie L ^f   Penny, Mary E ^g   Fernald, Lia C H ^h  

^a Health Quality Assurance Ministry of Health and Social Welfare   (Tanzania)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Faculty of Health Sciences   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Cognition; Lower and middle income countries; PPVT; Sanitation; Water

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; ETHIOPIAN; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYGIENE; INDIA; INDIAN; INFANCY; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST; PERU; PERUVIAN; PIPELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECYCLING; SANITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; STORAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOILETING; VIET NAM; VIETNAMESE; WATER SUPPLY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER QUALITY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PERU; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SANITATION; VIETNAM; VOCABULARY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 85015027209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013201     Document Type: Article

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