Effect of Improved Drinking Water and Sanitation Services on Children’s Health

Abstract

Poor drinking water and sanitation services are important policy issues that Bangladesh is facing as achieving global sanitation targets and providing safe drinking to water to everyone requires effectively extending WASH services to Bangladesh's citizens. Unsafe water, unhygienic sanitation and poor sanitation infrastructure are still posing serious health risk in many parts of the country. The main victim of these poor services are children who are vulnerable to water borne diseases as they are mainly caused by poor WASH infrastructure. This thesis paper attempted to investigate the HIES 2016 data to understand the impact of drinking water and sanitation services on water borne diseases for children less than 5 years of age in Bangladesh.