Place and Child Health : The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries
A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance of dense settlement for child mortality and child height is moderated by exposure to local sanitation behavior. Is open defecatio...
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okr-10986-206412021-04-23T14:03:59Z Place and Child Health : The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries Hathi, Payal Haque, Sabrina Pant, Lovey Coffey, Diane Spears, Dean ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES BREASTFEEDING BULLETIN CENSUS DATA CENSUSES CENTER FOR HEALTH CHEMOTHERAPY CHILD HEALTH CHILD HEALTH OUTCOMES CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD MORTALITY CHILD SURVIVAL CHILDBEARING CHILDBEARING AGE CHOLERA CITIES DEMOGRAPHERS DEMOGRAPHIC DATA DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIARRHEA DISEASE CONTROL DOCTORS DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATED MOTHERS ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH EPIDEMIC EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY HEALTH CONSEQUENCES HEALTH INVESTMENTS HEALTH OUTCOMES HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HYGIENE IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH INCOME INDEXES INFANT INFANT DEATHS INFANT HEALTH INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY ESTIMATES INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFANTS INFECTION INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SYSTEM INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY LIVE BIRTHS LOCAL POPULATION MALNUTRITION MATERNAL CARE MATERNAL HEALTH MATERNAL HEALTH CARE MATERNAL NUTRITION MEDICINES MORTALITY DIFFERENTIALS MOTHER MULTIPLE BIRTH MULTIPLE BIRTHS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NATIONAL POPULATION OFFICE OF POPULATION PARASITES POLICY DECISIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLIO POLIO ERADICATION POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION CENSUS POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION ESTIMATES POPULATION HEALTH POPULATION RESEARCH POPULATION STUDIES PROBABILITY PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH RADIO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULATION RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATION SANITATION SEX SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS SPILLOVER STUNTING SURVIVAL ADVANTAGE TELEVISION TV UNDERNUTRITION UNIONS URBAN AREAS URBAN POVERTY URBANIZATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance of dense settlement for child mortality and child height is moderated by exposure to local sanitation behavior. Is open defecation, without a toilet or latrine, worse for infant mortality and child height where population density is greater? Is poor sanitation an important mechanism by which population density in?uences health outcomes? The paper uses newly assembled data sets to present two complementary analyses, which represent di?erent points in a trade-o? between external and internal validity. The first analysis concentrates on external validity by studying infant mortality and child height in a large, international child-level data set of 172 Demographic and Health Surveys, matched to census population density data for 1,800 subnational regions. The second analysis concentrates on internal validity by studying child height in Bangladeshi districts, with a new data set constructed with Geographic Information System techniques, and controls for ?xed e?ects at a high level of geographic resolution. The paper ?nds a statistically robust and quantitatively comparable interaction between sanitation and population density with both approaches: open defecation externalities are more important for child health outcomes where people live more closely together. 2014-12-03T21:22:01Z 2014-12-03T21:22:01Z 2014-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/20426961/place-child-health-interaction-population-density-sanitation-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20641 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7124 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Bangladesh |
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ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES BREASTFEEDING BULLETIN CENSUS DATA CENSUSES CENTER FOR HEALTH CHEMOTHERAPY CHILD HEALTH CHILD HEALTH OUTCOMES CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD MORTALITY CHILD SURVIVAL CHILDBEARING CHILDBEARING AGE CHOLERA CITIES DEMOGRAPHERS DEMOGRAPHIC DATA DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIARRHEA DISEASE CONTROL DOCTORS DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATED MOTHERS ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH EPIDEMIC EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY HEALTH CONSEQUENCES HEALTH INVESTMENTS HEALTH OUTCOMES HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HYGIENE IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH INCOME INDEXES INFANT INFANT DEATHS INFANT HEALTH INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY ESTIMATES INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFANTS INFECTION INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SYSTEM INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY LIVE BIRTHS LOCAL POPULATION MALNUTRITION MATERNAL CARE MATERNAL HEALTH MATERNAL HEALTH CARE MATERNAL NUTRITION MEDICINES MORTALITY DIFFERENTIALS MOTHER MULTIPLE BIRTH MULTIPLE BIRTHS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NATIONAL POPULATION OFFICE OF POPULATION PARASITES POLICY DECISIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLIO POLIO ERADICATION POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION CENSUS POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION ESTIMATES POPULATION HEALTH POPULATION RESEARCH POPULATION STUDIES PROBABILITY PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH RADIO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULATION RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATION SANITATION SEX SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS SPILLOVER STUNTING SURVIVAL ADVANTAGE TELEVISION TV UNDERNUTRITION UNIONS URBAN AREAS URBAN POVERTY URBANIZATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN |
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A long literature in demography debates
the importance of place for health. This paper assesses
whether the importance of dense settlement for child
mortality and child height is moderated by exposure to local
sanitation behavior. Is open defecation, without a toilet or
latrine, worse for infant mortality and child height where
population density is greater? Is poor sanitation an
important mechanism by which population density in?uences
health outcomes? The paper uses newly assembled data sets to
present two complementary analyses, which represent di?erent
points in a trade-o? between external and internal validity.
The first analysis concentrates on external validity by
studying infant mortality and child height in a large,
international child-level data set of 172 Demographic and
Health Surveys, matched to census population density data
for 1,800 subnational regions. The second analysis
concentrates on internal validity by studying child height
in Bangladeshi districts, with a new data set constructed
with Geographic Information System techniques, and controls
for ?xed e?ects at a high level of geographic resolution.
The paper ?nds a statistically robust and quantitatively
comparable interaction between sanitation and population
density with both approaches: open defecation externalities
are more important for child health outcomes where people
live more closely together. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
Hathi, Payal Haque, Sabrina Pant, Lovey Coffey, Diane Spears, Dean |
| author_facet |
Hathi, Payal Haque, Sabrina Pant, Lovey Coffey, Diane Spears, Dean |
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Hathi, Payal |
| title |
Place and Child Health : The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries |
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Place and Child Health : The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries |
| title_full |
Place and Child Health : The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries |
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Place and Child Health : The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries |
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Place and Child Health : The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries |
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place and child health : the interaction of population density and sanitation in developing countries |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/20426961/place-child-health-interaction-population-density-sanitation-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20641 |
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