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Sources of variation in under-5 mortality across sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial analysis
Detailed spatial understanding of levels and trends in under-5 mortality is needed to improve the targeting of interventions to the areas of highest need, and to understand the sources of variation in mortality. To improve this understanding, we analysed local-level information on child mortality across sub-Saharan Africa between 1980–2010.
Author(s): Marshall Burke, Sam Heft-Neal, Eran Bendavid
Source: Lancet Global Health
Infant mortality, Africa, Child Health, Malaria, Diarrhoea, Nigeria, Congo, Climate Change, Vector Borne Diseases
Kenya: Disease Fears As Kirinyaga Towns Hit By Water Shortage
An acute shortage of water has hit three major towns in Kirinyaga County, raising fears of disease.
Source: All Africa
Water Supply, Drinking Water, Kenya, Health Effects, Diseases, Africa, Rivers, Water Quality, Typhoid, Diarrhoea, Cholera, Waterborne diseases
Medical waste dumped in open poses serious threat to public health
KARACHI: Despite being the largest public sector hospital in the city and among the few that have an incinerator, the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JMPC) at present doesn't have a proper syst
Source: Dawn (Pakistan)
Hazardous Waste, Hospital Waste, Waste Disposal, Pakistan, Health Effects, Hepatitis, Diarrhoea, South Asia
The designer loo revolutionising Madagascar's toilet crisis
American design student Virginia Gardiner did not expect to end up finding her muse in a toilet, or find power and profit out of poo.
Source: Guardian (UK)
Sanitation, Toilets, Madagascar, Waterborne diseases, Diarrhoea, Africa
The Lancet Global Health: Arab uprising has had long-term effect on health, lowering life expectancy in several countries
The Arab uprising in 2010 and subsequent wars in the eastern Mediterranean region have had serious detrimental effects on the health and life expectancy of the people living in many of the 22 count
Source: Eurek Alert
Health, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Health Care, Women, Water Supply, Sanitation, Waterborne diseases, Communicable Diseases, Diarrhoea
Health in times of uncertainty in the eastern Mediterranean region, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
The eastern Mediterranean region is comprised of 22 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Since our Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010), the region has faced unrest as a result of revolutions, wars, and the so-called Arab uprisings. The objective of this study was to present the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors in the eastern Mediterranean region as of 2013.
Author(s): Ali H Mokdad, Mohammad Hossein Forouzanfar, Farah Daoud & et al
Conflicts, Health Effects, Non Communicable Diseases, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Diarrhoea, Malnutrition, Indoor Air Pollution
New Zealand launches water supply inquiry after thousands fall sick
The New Zealand government launched an inquiry on Thursday into the contamination of a regional water supply that has left thousands of people sick with vomiting and diarrhoea.
Water Supply, Water Quality, Health Effects, New Zealand, Diarrhoea
Dirty water stunts millions of Indian children: Study
India is home to the world's largest number of stunted children due to a lack of toilets, dirty water and poor hygiene, according to a new study published on Tuesday.
Water Pollution, Children, Child Health, Diarrhoea, Health Effects, UNICEF
Cholera returns, mapping of endemic villages begins
With cholera outbreak reported in Rayagada district, the Health Department on Monday started a mapping of the endemic villages in Kalyansinghpur and Kashipur blocks where local tribal youths would
Source: New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Orissa (Odisha), Cholera, Rayagada (D), Diarrhoea, Health Effects, Health
A toilet or safe drinking water? The stark choice facing many people in rural India
India's ambitious sanitation drive has created a health hazard, with many toilets built cheek by jowl with family water supplies
Sanitation, Water Supply, Drinking Water, Toilets, Water Pollution, India, Odisha, Diseases, Health Effects, Open Defecation, Water Quality, Groundwater, Diarrhoea
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