Child Diarrhea and Tubewell Use in Rural Bangladesh, 2018-2019

A prospective community surveillance study in Matlab, Bangladesh from March 2018 to October 2019 examined the association between deep tubewell use and diarrheal disease risk in children under five. The dataset, 79.2 KB in size, was authored by Varun Goel and is available in XLSX format. Results indicate children in households using deep tubewells had a diarrheal disease prevalence 0.83 times that of children in households using shallow tubewells.

Use Cases

• Modeling the association between water source type and child diarrhea risk based on the reported risk ratios.
• Analyzing how environmental factors like flood-prone areas modify the protective effect of deep tubewells.
• Investigating seasonal variations in diarrhea risk related to tubewell use during dry and wet periods.
• Studying the role of household infrastructure, such as latrine type and well location, on waterborne disease outcomes.

Strengths

• Data is from a prospective community surveillance study, suggesting a structured data collection method.
• Results include specific risk ratios and confidence intervals, indicating statistical analysis was performed.
• The study covers a defined time period from March 2018 to October 2019.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's 79.2 KB size suggests a limited scope, likely containing summary or analysis results rather than raw surveillance records.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Community diarrheal disease surveillance across households with under-five children.

Time Range

March 2018 to October 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 12:44:17; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Matlab, Bangladesh