Examining the relationship between socio-economic status, WASH practices and wasting

Mohammad Jyoti Raihan, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Sabiha Sultana, Md Ahshanul Haque, Ahmed Shafiqur Rahman, Jillian L Waid, Ben McCormick, Nuzhat Choudhury and Tahmeed Ahmed

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-14

Abstract: Childhood wasting is a global problem and is significantly more pronounced in low and middle income countries like Bangladesh. Socio Economic Status (SES) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practices may be significantly associated with wasting. Most previous research is consistent about the role of SES, but the significance of WASH in the context of wasting remains ambiguous. The effect of SES and WASH on weight for length (WHZ) is examined using a Structural Equation Model (SEM) to explicitly describe the direct and indirect role of WASH in the context of SES.A nationally representative survey of 10,478 Bangladeshi children under 5 were examined. An expert defined SEM was used to construct latent variables for SES and WASH. The SEM included a direct pathway from SES to WHZ and an indirect pathway from SES to WHZ via WASH along with regression of relevant covariates on the outcome WHZ and the latent variables. Both SES (p

Date: 2017
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