全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Quantifying Contact with the Environment: Behaviors of Young Children in Accra, Ghana

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来源类型	Publication
	Quantifying Contact with the Environment: Behaviors of Young Children in Accra, Ghana
	Peter F. M. Teunis; Heather E. Reese; Clair Null; Habib Yakubu; and Christine L. Moe
发表日期	2016-02-15
出版者	The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (published online ahead of print)
出版年	2016
语种	英语
概述	To better understand the risks of exposure for young children to fecal contamination in their environment, we systematically characterized and quantified behaviors of 154 children, 0–5 years old, in four high-density, low-income neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana.",
摘要	To better understand the risks of exposure for young children to fecal contamination in their environment, we systematically characterized and quantified behaviors of 154 children, 0–5 years old, in four high-density, low-income neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana. A repertoire of six different activities and five different compartments (categories of locations within the household) was developed, and about 500 hours of ordered structured observations of activities and locations of individual children were collected. These records were analyzed using a competing hazards model, estimating (Weibull) hazard rates for each state (activity/compartment combination), dependent on the present state and the preceding state. The estimated rates were used to simulate sequences of behavior and describe days in the life of a child in low-income, urban Africa. Children younger than 1 year spent most time playing or sleeping off the ground, older children frequently played on floors. Relatively little time was spent in drains or wet trash areas. Critical combinations of activities, like handwashing after defecation or before eating were estimated to occur rarely. These quantitative behavior estimates can inform future risk assessments that examine the relative roles of various fecal–oral exposure pathways in low-income urban settings.
URL	https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/quantifying-contact-with-the-environment-behaviors-of-young-children-in-accra-ghana
来源智库	Mathematica Policy Research (United States)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/488424
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Peter F. M. Teunis,Heather E. Reese,Clair Null,et al. Quantifying Contact with the Environment: Behaviors of Young Children in Accra, Ghana. 2016.