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Examining the relationship between socio-economic status, WASH practices and wasting
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 r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5344309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28278161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172134 |
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author | Raihan, Mohammad Jyoti Farzana, Fahmida Dil Sultana, Sabiha Haque, Md Ahshanul Rahman, Ahmed Shafiqur Waid, Jillian L. McCormick, Ben Choudhury, Nuzhat Ahmed, Tahmeed |
author_facet | Raihan, Mohammad Jyoti Farzana, Fahmida Dil Sultana, Sabiha Haque, Md Ahshanul Rahman, Ahmed Shafiqur Waid, Jillian L. McCormick, Ben Choudhury, Nuzhat Ahmed, Tahmeed |
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description | 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<0.01) and WASH (p<0.05) significantly affect WHZ. SES (p<0.01) also significantly affects WASH. Other structural components showed that child’s age (p<0.01) affects WHZ and types of residence (p<0.01) affects SES. WASH practices at least partially mediate the association between SES and wasting status. WASH and SES are both significantly associated with WHZ. |
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spelling | pubmed-53443092017-03-29 Examining the relationship between socio-economic status, WASH practices and wasting Raihan, Mohammad Jyoti Farzana, Fahmida Dil Sultana, Sabiha Haque, Md Ahshanul Rahman, Ahmed Shafiqur Waid, Jillian L. McCormick, Ben Choudhury, Nuzhat Ahmed, Tahmeed PLoS One Research Article 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<0.01) and WASH (p<0.05) significantly affect WHZ. SES (p<0.01) also significantly affects WASH. Other structural components showed that child’s age (p<0.01) affects WHZ and types of residence (p<0.01) affects SES. WASH practices at least partially mediate the association between SES and wasting status. WASH and SES are both significantly associated with WHZ. Public Library of Science 2017-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5344309/ /pubmed/28278161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172134 Text en © 2017 Raihan et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Raihan, Mohammad Jyoti Farzana, Fahmida Dil Sultana, Sabiha Haque, Md Ahshanul Rahman, Ahmed Shafiqur Waid, Jillian L. McCormick, Ben Choudhury, Nuzhat Ahmed, Tahmeed Examining the relationship between socio-economic status, WASH practices and wasting |
title | Examining the relationship between socio-economic status, WASH practices and wasting |
title_full | Examining the relationship between socio-economic status, WASH practices and wasting |
title_fullStr | Examining the relationship between socio-economic status, WASH practices and wasting |
title_full_unstemmed | Examining the relationship between socio-economic status, WASH practices and wasting |
title_short | Examining the relationship between socio-economic status, WASH practices and wasting |
title_sort | examining the relationship between socio-economic status, wash practices and wasting |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5344309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28278161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172134 |
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