The value of Hygiene Promotion Cost-effectiveness analysis of hygiene promotion interventions
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The value of hygiene promotion: cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions in developing countries.
Hygiene promotion can greatly improve the benefits of water and sanitation programmes in developing countries at relatively limited costs. There are, however, few studies with hard data on the costs and effectiveness of individual programmes and even fewer have compared the cost-effectiveness of different promotional approaches. This article argues that objectively measured reductions of key sa...
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