Switching to sanitation: Understanding latrine adoption in a representative panel of rural Indian households

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 188, Issue , 2017, Pages 41-50

  Coffey, Diane ^a,b,c   Spears, Dean ^a,b,c   Vyas, Sangita ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c a research institute for compassionate economics   (India)

Author keywords

Health; India; Latrine adoption; Sanitation

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING WORLD; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SANITATION; SURVEY;

ADOPTION; BEHAVIOR; CONSENSUS; DEFECATION; EFFECT SIZE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INDIA; SANITATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; DEVICES; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

INDIA;

FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INDIA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TOILET FACILITIES;

EID: 85023615810     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.07.001     Document Type: Article

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