“When you have no water, it means you have no peace”: A mixed-methods, whole-population study of water insecurity and depression in rural Uganda

Rumbidzai C. Mushavi, Bridget F.O. Burns, Bernard Kakuhikire, Moran Owembabazi, Dagmar Vořechovská, Amy Q. McDonough, Christine E. Cooper-Vince, Charles Baguma, Justin D. Rasmussen, David R. Bangsberg and Alexander C. Tsai

Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 245, issue C

Abstract: Lack of access to clean water has well known implications for communicable disease risks, but the broader construct of water insecurity is little studied, and its mental health impacts are even less well understood.

Keywords: Depression; Mental health; Psychological distress; Resource insecurity; Stress; Sub-Saharan Africa; Uganda; Water insecurity; Water security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112561

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