Gender Disparities in Water, Sanitation and Global Health

Bethany A. Caruso; Varadan Sevilimedu; Isaac Chun-Hai Fung; Archana Patkar; Kelly K. Baker

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61497-0

Gender Disparities in Water, Sanitation and Global Health

Bethany A. Caruso, Varadan Sevilimedu, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Archana Patkar, Kelly K. Baker

Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Environmental Health Sciences

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Abstract

Celebrating World Water Day, The Lancet Editors1 highlighted the gains made towards Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7c, “to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation”, and noted UN-Water's call for sustainable water management in view of future increases in demand and shortfalls in supply. As the primary water collectors worldwide, women are disproportionately affected by the scarcity of adequate resources; however, global estimates of improvements in water access do not reflect gender-disaggregated benefits and burdens.

Original language	American English
Journal	The Lancet
Volume	386
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61497-0
State	Published - 2015

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Public Health

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gender
hygiene
sanitation
water
woman

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