Does 'improved' sanitation make children healthier?: Household pit latrines and child health in rural Ethiopia

Working paper

In response to pressure to reach the Millennium Development Goal of improved sanitation access, the Ethiopian government has developed an ambitious plan to achieve 100 per cent access to pit latrines by 2012. The plans to achieve this target rely upon the assumption that universal access to pit latrines will lead to improved health outcomes. Using the Young Lives pro-poor longitudinal data of Ethiopian children, this research uses propensity score matching to test this assumption. Children wh...

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Authors: Cameron, L

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Young Lives Publisher's website
• Series: Young Lives Working Paper
• Place of publication: http://www.younglives.org.uk/publications/working-papers
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• Paper number: 42
• ISBN: 9781904427452
• Language: English
• Keywords: child health; propensity score matching; Ethiopia; sanitation
• Subjects: Health and health policy; Households; Public Health; Poverty