What is it about?
This study attempts to examine the correlates of environmental hygiene and the influence of environmental hygiene on child health outcomes in Cameroon while controlling for other variables. The study made the use of Heckman/Control function Model through the 2011 Demographic and Health Survey with a sample size of 11.732 households. Result shows that environmental hygienic strongly corroborates with child health outcomes, meaning that improve latrines is associated with increase in child health in Cameroon. Result of determinants shows that education, father’s age, father present in the house and urban residence are strongly correlating with environmental hygiene.
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Why is it important?
Highlights the need for decision-makers to be more intentional with allocating economic resources towards sanitation projects. Empirically, this study attempted to quantify the link between environmental hygiene and child health outcomes using the Cameroon DHS while solving for endogeneity, heterogeneity, simultaneity, and selectivity bias.
Perspectives
Researchers in this domain should use more than one child health measure among the host of child anthropometrics and other sources of data to carry out their analysis.
Dr Tambi Daniel
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This page is a summary of: Measuring the Effect of Environmental Hygieneon Child Health Outcomes in Cameroon, Journal of Economics and Management, January 2018, University of Economics in Katowice,
DOI: 10.22367/jem.2018.32.08.
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