Where there is no toilet: water and sanitation environments of domestic and facility births in Tanzania.

Inadequate water and sanitation during childbirth are likely to lead to poor maternal and newborn outcomes. This paper uses existing data sources to assess the water and sanitation (WATSAN) environment surrounding births in Tanzania in order to interrogate whether such estimates could be useful for...

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Main Authors: Lenka Benova, Oliver Cumming, Bruce A Gordon, Moke Magoma, Oona M R Campbell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4156337?pdf=render