Health

How valuable are environmental health interventions? Evaluation of water and sanitation programmes in India

The objective of this study was to evaluate and quantify the economic benefits attributable to improvements in water supply and sanitation in rural India.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2010
Subhrendu K Pattanayak, Christine Poulos, Jui-Chen Yang & et al
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
88
7
536
Tags:
Rural Water Supply, Waterborne diseases, Health, Diarrhoea, Rural Sanitation, India, Maharashtra, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Subhrendu K Pattanayak, Christine Poulos, Jui-Chen Yang & et al
Sanitation

Shame or subsidy revisited: social mobilization for sanitation in Orissa, India

The objective of the study was to determine the effectiveness of a sanitation campaign that combines

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Subhrendu K Pattanayak, Jui-Chen Yang, Katherine L Dickinson & et al
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
87
8
580
Tags:
Health Effects, Toilets, Sanitation, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign), Rural Sanitation, Subsidies, India, Orissa (Odisha), Bhadrak (D), Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Subhrendu K Pattanayak, Jui-Chen Yang, Katherine L Dickinson & et al
Sanitation

Shame or subsidy revisited: social mobilization for sanitation in Orissa, India

The objective of the study was to determine the effectiveness of a sanitation campaign that combines “shaming” (i.e. emotional motivators) with subsidies for poor households in rural Orissa, an Indian state with a disproportionately high share of India’s child mortality.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
29/05/2009
Subhrendu K Pattanayak, Jui-Chen Yang, Katherine L Dickinson & et al
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
87
1-19
Tags:
Sanitation, Waterborne diseases, Orissa (Odisha), Subsidies, Health Effects, Rural Sanitation, Toilets, Bhadrak (D)