Parental decisions, child health and valuation of avoiding arsenic in drinking water in rural Bangladesh
| العنوان: | Parental decisions, child health and valuation of avoiding arsenic in drinking water in rural Bangladesh |
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| المؤلفون: | Sonia N. Aziz, Thomas D. Crocker, Kevin J. Boyle |
| المصدر: | Journal of Water and Health. 13:152-167 |
| بيانات النشر: | IWA Publishing, 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Male, Parents, Rural Population, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Health Behavior, Water source, Child Welfare, Developing country, Child health, Arsenic, Young Adult, Environmental health, medicine, Humans, Child, Waste Management and Disposal, ARSENIC EXPOSURE, Aged, Water Science and Technology, Valuation (finance), Aged, 80 and over, Bangladesh, Drinking Water, Public health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Environmental Exposure, Middle Aged, Models, Theoretical, Arsenic contamination of groundwater, Infectious Diseases, Female, Business, Risk Reduction Behavior, Water Pollutants, Chemical |
| الوصف: | Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh is a widespread public health hazard. Water sources without high arsenic levels are scarce, affecting people's availability for work and other activities when they have to seek safe water to drink. While children are particularly susceptible to chronic arsenic exposure, limited information and heavy constraints on resources may preclude people in developing countries from taking protective actions. Since parents are primary decision-makers for children, a model of stochastic decision-making analytically linking parent health and child health is used to frame the valuation of avoiding arsenic exposure using an averting behavior model. The results show that safe drinking water programs do work and that people do take protective actions. The results can help guide public health mitigation policies, and examine whether factors such as child health and time required for remediation have an effect on mitigation measures. |
| تدمد: | 1996-7829 1477-8920 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d513bdaefadf3915f0bcf71ebd28d30fTest https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2014.213Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....d513bdaefadf3915f0bcf71ebd28d30f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19967829 14778920 |
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