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Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh: Factors Affecting Child Health
The focus of this paper is to present an empirical model of factors affecting child health by observing actions households take to avoid exposure to arsenic in drinking water. Millions of Bangladeshis face multiple health hazards from high levels of arsenic in drinking water. Safe water sources are...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058837/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24982854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2014.00057 |
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author | Aziz, Sonia N. Aziz, Khwaja M. S. Boyle, Kevin J. |
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description | The focus of this paper is to present an empirical model of factors affecting child health by observing actions households take to avoid exposure to arsenic in drinking water. Millions of Bangladeshis face multiple health hazards from high levels of arsenic in drinking water. Safe water sources are either expensive or difficult to access, affecting people’s individuals’ time available for work and ultimately affecting the health of household members. Since children are particularly susceptible and live with parents who are primary decision makers for sustenance, parental actions linking child health outcomes is used in the empirical model. Empirical results suggest that child health is significantly affected by the age and gender of the household water procurer. Adults with a high degree of concern for children’s health risk from arsenic contamination, and who actively mitigate their arsenic contaminated water have a positive effect on child health. |
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spelling | pubmed-40588372014-06-30 Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh: Factors Affecting Child Health Aziz, Sonia N. Aziz, Khwaja M. S. Boyle, Kevin J. Front Public Health Public Health The focus of this paper is to present an empirical model of factors affecting child health by observing actions households take to avoid exposure to arsenic in drinking water. Millions of Bangladeshis face multiple health hazards from high levels of arsenic in drinking water. Safe water sources are either expensive or difficult to access, affecting people’s individuals’ time available for work and ultimately affecting the health of household members. Since children are particularly susceptible and live with parents who are primary decision makers for sustenance, parental actions linking child health outcomes is used in the empirical model. Empirical results suggest that child health is significantly affected by the age and gender of the household water procurer. Adults with a high degree of concern for children’s health risk from arsenic contamination, and who actively mitigate their arsenic contaminated water have a positive effect on child health. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4058837/ /pubmed/24982854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2014.00057 Text en Copyright © 2014 Aziz, Aziz and Boyle. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Aziz, Sonia N. Aziz, Khwaja M. S. Boyle, Kevin J. Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh: Factors Affecting Child Health |
title | Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh: Factors Affecting Child Health |
title_full | Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh: Factors Affecting Child Health |
title_fullStr | Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh: Factors Affecting Child Health |
title_full_unstemmed | Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh: Factors Affecting Child Health |
title_short | Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh: Factors Affecting Child Health |
title_sort | arsenic in drinking water in bangladesh: factors affecting child health |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058837/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24982854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2014.00057 |
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