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Trends and inequity in improved sanitation facility utilisation in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys
Improved sanitation is indispensable to human health. However, lack of access to improved sanitation remains one of the most daunting public health challenges of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh. The aim of the study was to describe the trends in access to improved sanitation facilities follow...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10619219/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37908017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06555-0 |
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author | Ahmed, Anisuddin Sayeed, Abu Tanwi, Tania Sultana Saha, Nondo Hanson, Molly Protyai, Dipanjan Adhikary Hossain, Aniqa Tasnim Ahmed, Ali Rahman, Fariya Akter, Ema Nusrat, Nowrin Badsha, Md Shawon Rahman, Afruna Islam, Md Khairul Alam, Md. Shah Nahar, Quamrun Arifeen, Shams El Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur Tahsina, Tazeen |
author_facet | Ahmed, Anisuddin Sayeed, Abu Tanwi, Tania Sultana Saha, Nondo Hanson, Molly Protyai, Dipanjan Adhikary Hossain, Aniqa Tasnim Ahmed, Ali Rahman, Fariya Akter, Ema Nusrat, Nowrin Badsha, Md Shawon Rahman, Afruna Islam, Md Khairul Alam, Md. Shah Nahar, Quamrun Arifeen, Shams El Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur Tahsina, Tazeen |
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description | Improved sanitation is indispensable to human health. However, lack of access to improved sanitation remains one of the most daunting public health challenges of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh. The aim of the study was to describe the trends in access to improved sanitation facilities following the inequity gap among households in different socioeconomic groups in Bangladesh. Data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2007, 2011, 2014, and 2017-18 were extracted for this study. Inequity in access to improved sanitation was calculated using rich-poor ratio and concentration index to determine the changes in inequity across the time period. In Bangladesh, the proportion of households with access to improved sanitation increased steadily from 25.4% to 45.4% between 2007 and 2014, but slightly decreased to 44.0% in 2017-18. Age, educational status, marital status of household head, household wealth index, household size, place of residence, division, and survey year were significantly associated with the utilisation of improved sanitation. There is a pro-rich situation, which means that utilisation of improved sanitation was more concentrated among the rich across all survey years (Concentration Index ranges: 0.40 to 0.27). The government and other relevant stakeholders should take initiatives considering inequity among different socioeconomic groups to ensure the use of improved sanitation facilities for all, hence achieving universal health coverage. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-023-06555-0. |
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spelling | pubmed-106192192023-11-02 Trends and inequity in improved sanitation facility utilisation in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys Ahmed, Anisuddin Sayeed, Abu Tanwi, Tania Sultana Saha, Nondo Hanson, Molly Protyai, Dipanjan Adhikary Hossain, Aniqa Tasnim Ahmed, Ali Rahman, Fariya Akter, Ema Nusrat, Nowrin Badsha, Md Shawon Rahman, Afruna Islam, Md Khairul Alam, Md. Shah Nahar, Quamrun Arifeen, Shams El Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur Tahsina, Tazeen BMC Res Notes Research Note Improved sanitation is indispensable to human health. However, lack of access to improved sanitation remains one of the most daunting public health challenges of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh. The aim of the study was to describe the trends in access to improved sanitation facilities following the inequity gap among households in different socioeconomic groups in Bangladesh. Data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2007, 2011, 2014, and 2017-18 were extracted for this study. Inequity in access to improved sanitation was calculated using rich-poor ratio and concentration index to determine the changes in inequity across the time period. In Bangladesh, the proportion of households with access to improved sanitation increased steadily from 25.4% to 45.4% between 2007 and 2014, but slightly decreased to 44.0% in 2017-18. Age, educational status, marital status of household head, household wealth index, household size, place of residence, division, and survey year were significantly associated with the utilisation of improved sanitation. There is a pro-rich situation, which means that utilisation of improved sanitation was more concentrated among the rich across all survey years (Concentration Index ranges: 0.40 to 0.27). The government and other relevant stakeholders should take initiatives considering inequity among different socioeconomic groups to ensure the use of improved sanitation facilities for all, hence achieving universal health coverage. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-023-06555-0. BioMed Central 2023-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10619219/ /pubmed/37908017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06555-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Ahmed, Anisuddin Sayeed, Abu Tanwi, Tania Sultana Saha, Nondo Hanson, Molly Protyai, Dipanjan Adhikary Hossain, Aniqa Tasnim Ahmed, Ali Rahman, Fariya Akter, Ema Nusrat, Nowrin Badsha, Md Shawon Rahman, Afruna Islam, Md Khairul Alam, Md. Shah Nahar, Quamrun Arifeen, Shams El Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur Tahsina, Tazeen Trends and inequity in improved sanitation facility utilisation in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys |
title | Trends and inequity in improved sanitation facility utilisation in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys |
title_full | Trends and inequity in improved sanitation facility utilisation in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys |
title_fullStr | Trends and inequity in improved sanitation facility utilisation in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys |
title_full_unstemmed | Trends and inequity in improved sanitation facility utilisation in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys |
title_short | Trends and inequity in improved sanitation facility utilisation in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys |
title_sort | trends and inequity in improved sanitation facility utilisation in bangladesh: evidence from bangladesh demographic and health surveys |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10619219/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37908017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06555-0 |
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