Prevalence and Costs of Childhood Diarrhoea in the Slums of Dhaka

M. Jahangir Alam

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Abstract: This study seeks to identify the engineering, behavioural and socio-economic determinants of childhood diarrhoea and its duration and to compute the resulting costs borne by slum dwellers. The study is based on a survey of 480 households in 32 slums in Dhaka.

Keywords: households; Diarrhoea; behavioural; socio-economic; slum dwellers; water supply; Child; Cost; Behavioural factors; Hurdle Model; Dhaka; NGO hygiene (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-02
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