Association between vaccine preventable diseases in children and improved sanitation following a nationwide sanitation campaign in India: an ecological analysis

OBJECTIVE: Persistent exposure to faecal pathogens due to open defecation may cause environmental enteropathy that, in turn, may lead to undernutrition and vaccine failure in under 5-year-old (u5) children. The Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) programme in India, launched in 2014, aimed to construct toil...

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Main Authors: Bruckner, T.-A (Author), Forthal, D.N (Author), Shah, M. (Author), Singh, P. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NLM (Medline) 2022
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