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Hunter, Paul R. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5608-6144
(2009)
Household water treatment in developing countries: comparing different intervention types using meta-regression.
Environmental Science & Technology, 43 (23).
pp. 8991-8997.
ISSN 1520-5851
Abstract
Household water treatment (HWT) is being widely promoted as an appropriate intervention for reducing the burden of waterborne disease in poor communities in developing countries. A recent study has raised concerns about the effectiveness of HWT, in part because of concerns over the lack of blinding and in part because of considerable heterogeneity in the reported effectiveness of randomized controlled trials. This study set out to attempt to investigate the causes of this heterogeneity and so identify factors associated with good health gains. Studies identified in an earlier systematic review and meta-analysis were supplemented with more recently published randomized controlled trials. A total of 28 separate studies of randomized controlled trials of HWT with 39 intervention arms were included in the analysis. Heterogeneity was studied using the "metareg" command in Stata. Initial analyses with single candidate predictors were undertaken and all variables significant at the P
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | bias (epidemiology),developing countries,family characteristics,follow-up studies,meta-analysis as topic,regression analysis,risk factors,water purification |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Epidemiology and Public Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Population Health |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2010 11:12 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2023 00:39 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/14950 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/es9028217 |
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