5. a. Journal in Water This paper investigates the Diarrheal diseases caused Water, sanitation, diarrheal a. Descriptif Analitic Results indicate that the
Policy role of water and sanitation primarily by unsafe water incidence, children b. Cross Sectional incidence probability of
b. Vol.2 No.9 infrastructure on diarrheal supply and inadequate c. The population in this study IS all diarrhea is on average 20%
c. 2015 incidence in children sanitation are the second households in Guatemala lower in homes connected to a
d. Anna-Maria Aksan leading cause of child d. The data used in this study come from sewage system. The effect of
e. Water, Sanitation, mortality in developing the 2006 Living Standards in-home access to tap water is
and Diarrheal countries, responsible for Measurement Survey referred to as weaker at 11% and subject to
Incidence among approximately 1.87 Encuesta Nacional de Condiciones de regional heterogeneity.
Children: Evidence million deaths among Vida 2006 (ENCOVI). Due to its Findings also indicate that
from Guatemala children less than five
sampling design, ENCOVI is consumption of bottled water
years of age annually
representative at the national level. reduces the incidence
(Prüss-Üstün et al., 2004;
ENCOVI followed a two-stage strategy probability of diarrhea by 20-
Boschi-Pinto et al., 2008).
to select representative samples of 22%. In-home water
households in 44 sampling areas: rural treatments have no effect on
and urban areas in 22 departments. incidence of diarrhea. Policy
The first stage consisted of a stratified implications are discussed.
sampling procedure implemented in
each sampling area to classify primary
sampling units (PSUs) according to
unsatisfied basic needs indicators.
PSUs in urban areas were classified in
five strata (very low, low, medium,
medium high, and high), and rural PSUs
were classified in four strata (low,
medium, medium high, and high). In
the second stage, two secondary
sampling units (SSUs) consisting of
clusters of an average of six
households were selected.
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