Population Density, Poor Sanitation, and Enteric Infections in Nueva Guatemala | Semantic Scholar (2025)

A high prevalence of enteric infections is found, primarily among children without diarrhea, and weak associations between bacterial and protozoan infections and environmental risk factors including WASH are found.

The study highlights the important causes of gastrointestinal disorders that present themselves in this hospital and confirms intestinal parasitosis as a major public health problem in Haiti.

The results showed that in Tanah Bumbu, factors that affected the incidence of diarrhea include population density, access to quality drinking water, and health facilities (p-value 0.0001), and other factors.

The dashboard information would further add some essential information for society to explore their zone status in adapting to the “New Normal” using the SICOVID-19 dashboard from their computers or gadgets during the pandemic crisis.

Improved feeding practices, along with avoidance of animal feces and improved personal and domestic hygiene, should be considered important interventions in reducing the high incidence of diarrhea in infants in developing countries.

Even within the context of extreme poverty in this remote rural setting, the distinct transmission patterns for hookworm, Trichuris and Ascaris highlight the need for multi-pronged intervention strategies.

Spatial distribution metrics of households within communities and of communities with respect to roads were developed that predict social network degree in casual contact ("contact") and food-sharing ("food") networks, and associations with diarrheal disease were found.

A controlled, before-and-after (CBA) trial to estimate the health impacts of an urban sanitation intervention in informal neighbourhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, including an assessment of whether exposures and health outcomes vary by localised population density.

A statistically robust and quantitatively comparable interaction between sanitation and population density with both approaches is found: open defecation externalities are more important for child health outcomes where people live more closely together.

The findings highlight the need to implement laboratory diagnostics for NoVs to improve appropriate clinical management of diarrheal diseases and guide vaccine development.

Despite better access to health related infrastructure in the more densely populated households, chronic protozoan infection was more common, and was associated with higher rates of child stunting, compared with more dispersed households.

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