With the help of one's neighbors: externalities in the production of nutrition in Peru

Alderman, Harold; Hentschel, Jesko; Sabatés, Ricardo

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(02)00183-1

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“…Positive spillover effects may occur if households with access to clean water share their water with neighbours that have no such access (Alderman, Hentschel, & Sabates, 2003). This might facilitate better hygiene and health outcomes for children in the community (Corsi et al, 2011;Gragnolati, 1999).…”

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“…This might facilitate better hygiene and health outcomes for children in the community (Corsi et al, 2011;Gragnolati, 1999). An even stronger spillover effect is expected with respect to the coverage of proper sanitation in the community (Alderman et al, 2003). Although an improved toilet increases the hygiene level of the owner, it cannot fully eliminate faecal contamination from the neighbourhood if other households lack such a facility (Andres et al, 2014;Clasen et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…An educated mother may have a higher level of awareness about hygiene (Alderman et al, 2003) and be better able to obtain clean water and to treat water effectively (Mangyo, 2008). Poorer households have fewer resources to fulfil their basic necessities, have poorer living conditions and have a lower health status, all factors that increase diarrhoea risk (Hatt & Waters, 2006).…”

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Clean water, sanitation and diarrhoea in Indonesia: Effects of household and community factors

Komarulzaman

Smits

Jong

2016

Global Public Health

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Diarrhoea is an important health issue in low-and middle-income countries, including Indonesia. We applied a multilevel regression analysis on the Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey to examine the effects of drinking water and sanitation facilities at the household and community level on diarrhoea prevalence among children under five (n = 33,339). The role of the circumstances was explored by studying interactions between the water and sanitation variables and other risk factors. Diarrhoea prevalence was reported by 4820 (14.4%) children, who on average were younger, poorer and were living in a poorer environment. At the household level, piped water was significantly associated with diarrhoea prevalence (OR = 0.797, 95% CI: 0.692-0.918), improved sanitation had no direct effect (OR = 0.992, 95% CI: 0.899-1.096) and water treatment was not related to diarrhoea incidence (OR = 1.106, 95% CI: 0.994-1.232). At the community level, improved water coverage had no direct effect (OR = 1.002, 95% CI: 0.950-1.057) but improved sanitation coverage was associated with lower diarrhoea prevalence (OR = 0.917, 95% CI: 0.843-0.998). Our interaction analysis showed that the protective effects of better sanitation at the community level were increased by better drinking water at the community level. This illustrates the importance of improving both drinking water and sanitation simultaneously. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Clean water, sanitation and diarrhoea in Indonesia: Effects of household and community factors

Komarulzaman

Smits

Jong

2016

Global Public Health

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“…This relationship is likely to operate through a traditional economic channel because, in a functioning labor market, qualified people should obtain a better job, thus having more income to use for their children's wellbeing. Moreover, schools can be a place where students directly obtain information on nutrition and health (Alderman, Hentschel, and Sabates 2003;Webb and Block 2004). Another important channel is information acquisition: for example, literate mothers can read the instructions of medicines and understand nutritional and health information disseminated by media like newspapers.…”

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Whose education affects a child’s nutritional status? From parents' to household's education

Burchi¹

2012

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BACKGROUNDThe paper engages in the ongoing debate regarding the determinants of child nutrition in developing countries and stresses the potential contribution of the education of household members other than the child's parents. OBJECTIVEThe aim of the paper is threefold: (1) to verify whether there is evidence of the key role of parents' education for children's nutrition; (2) to explore the possible presence of the externalities generated by the literacy of household members different from the child's parents; (3) to test whether there is difference in the influence of these variables on the two indicators of child nutrition, child height-for-age and weight-for-age. METHODSThe determinants of child nutrition were analyzed by estimating a series of econometric models through OLS regressions applied on data from the 2003 DHS survey in Mozambique. By means of seemingly unrelated regression together with formal testing we compared the impact of the covariates on the two outcomes. RESULTSIn line with previous studies, we find that one year of mother's education increases their children's height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores by nearly 0.025 and 0.015. The presence of another literate household member has a significant, though limited, effect on child height while it has no influence on child weight. Lastly, there is no statistically significant difference in the effect of parents' education on the two indicators while our measure of proximate literacy has a significantly larger impact on child height. CONCLUSIONSThese findings should orient policy-makers toward income-augmenting and educationenhancing policies: the importance of non-parents' literacy opens a further space for investment in education.

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“…Programs which educate women and children about the importance of proper handwashing with soap or ash and clean water can reduce diarrheal diseases incidence, acute lower respiratory infections, impetigo and soil-transmitted helminth infections in children of poor communities [59,79,80]. Nutrition education for women focused on basic nutritional concepts has a positive impact on the nutrition of their own children as well as the children of her neighbors [81]. Deworming programs have even been combined with family planning education programs in the Philippines [82].…”

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Neglected diseases of neglected populations: Thinking to reshape the determinants of health in Latin America and the Caribbean

2005

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BackgroundPeople living in poverty throughout the developing world are heavily burdened with neglected communicable diseases and often marginalized by the health sector. These diseases are currently referred to as Neglected Diseases of Neglected Populations. The neglected diseases create social and financial burdens to the individual, the family, the community, and the nation.DiscussionNumerous studies of successful individual interventions to manage communicable disease determinants in various types of communities have been published, but few have applied multiple interventions in an integrated, coordinated manner. We have identified a series of successful interventions and developed three hypothetical scenarios where such interventions could be applied in an integrated, multi-disease, inter-programmatic, and/or inter-sectoral approach for prevention and control of neglected diseases in three different populations: a slum, an indigenous community, and a city with a mix of populations.SummaryThe objective of this paper is to identify new opportunities to address neglected diseases, improve community health and promote sustainable development in neglected populations by highlighting examples of key risk and protective factors for neglected diseases which can be managed and implemented through multi-disease-based, integrated, inter-programmatic, and/or inter-sectoral approaches. Based on a literature review, analysis and development of scenarios we visualize how multiple interventions could manage multiple disease problems and propose these as possible strategies to be tested. We seek to stimulate intra- and inter-sectoral dialogue which will help in the construction of new strategies for neglected diseases (particularly for the parasitic diseases) which could benefit the poor and marginalized based on the principle of sustainability and understanding of key determinants of health, and lead to the establishment of pilot projects and activities which can contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

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With the help of one's neighbors: externalities in the production of nutrition in Peru

Cited by 66 publications

References 17 publications

Clean water, sanitation and diarrhoea in Indonesia: Effects of household and community factors

Clean water, sanitation and diarrhoea in Indonesia: Effects of household and community factors

Whose education affects a child’s nutritional status? From parents' to household's education

Neglected diseases of neglected populations: Thinking to reshape the determinants of health in Latin America and the Caribbean

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