| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29447 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29447 |
| Water Treatment and Child Mortality: Evidence from Kenya | |
| Johannes Haushofer; Michael Kremer; Ricardo Maertens; Brandon Joel Tan | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-11-08 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Each year, around 500,000 children under 5 die from diarrhea, making it the third-leading cause of death in this age group. More than 80 percent of these deaths are attributable to unsafe drinking water. Drinking water can be made safe through dilute chlorine solution, but take-up of this technology has been low. Previous work has shown that free community-wide provision of dilute chlorine solution through “dispensers” – reservoirs of chlorine solution at water sources that make chlorination easy and free – increases take-up of chlorination. However, it has remained unclear whether this increase also translates into reduced mortality. Here we show that four years of community-wide provision of dilute chlorine solution in rural Kenya reduces all-cause under-5 mortality by 1.4 percentage points (95% CI: 0.3 pp, 2.5 pp), a 63% reduction relative to control. We estimate that at USD 25 per DALY averted, free provision of chlorine solution is twenty times more cost-effective than the WHO “highly cost-effective” threshold. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29447 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587121 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Johannes Haushofer,Michael Kremer,Ricardo Maertens,et al. Water Treatment and Child Mortality: Evidence from Kenya. 2021. |
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| w29447.pdf（1271KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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