How Access to Urban Potable Water and Sewerage Connections Affects Child Mortality

• Tác giả: Anqing Shi
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 628.7 Sanitary engineering for rural and sparsely populated areas
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 302868
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS TO SERVICES; 2. ADEQUATE WATER; 3. CENTRAL GOVERNMENT; 4. CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TRANSFERS; 5. CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS

Tóm tắt

Using a city-level database of global Urban Indicators, the author finds that: 1) Improved access to urban potable water and sewerage connections is consistently associated with low child mortality. 2) Government involvement in providing water services, especially locally, significantly reduces child mortality. 3) Private or parastatal participation in providing sewerage connections is associated with low child mortality. Rapid urban growth and high levels of poverty within the city are correlated with high child mortality.