Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Appendices
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Environmental Valuation: A Review of Methods
- Chapter 3 Valuing the Environment as a Production Input
- Chapter 4 Should Shrimp Farmers Pay Paddy Farmers?: The Challenges of Examining Salinization Externalities in South India
- Chapter 5 Evaluating Gains from De-Eutrophication of the Dutch Canal in Sri Lanka
- Chapter 6 Pesticide Productivity and Vegetable Farming in Nepal
- Chapter 7 Forests, Hydrological Services, and Agricultural Income: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India
- Chapter 8 Can Mangroves Minimize Property Loss during Big Storms?: An Analysis of House Damages due to the Super Cyclone in Orissa
- Chapter 9 Valuation of Recreational Amenities from Environmental Resources: The Case of Two National Parks in Northern Pakistan
- Chapter 10 Valuing the Land of Tigers: What Indian Visitors Reveal
- Chapter 11 Estimating Welfare Losses from Urban Air Pollution using Panel Data from Household Health Diaries
- Chapter 12 Children in the Slums of Dhaka: Diarrhoea Prevalence and its Implications
- Chapter 13 Red Wells, Green Wells and the Costs of Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh
- Chapter 14 Air Quality and Cement Production: Examining the Implications of Point Source Pollution in Sri Lanka
- Chapter 15 Revisiting the Need for Improved Stoves: Estimating Health, Time and Carbon Benefits
- Chapter 16 Benefits from Reduced Air Pollution in Delhi and Kolkata: A Hedonic Property Price Approach
- Chapter 17 The Value of Statistical Life
- Chapter 18 An Assessment of Demand for Improved Household Water Supply in Southwest Sri Lanka
- Index
Chapter 12 - Children in the Slums of Dhaka: Diarrhoea Prevalence and its Implications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Appendices
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Environmental Valuation: A Review of Methods
- Chapter 3 Valuing the Environment as a Production Input
- Chapter 4 Should Shrimp Farmers Pay Paddy Farmers?: The Challenges of Examining Salinization Externalities in South India
- Chapter 5 Evaluating Gains from De-Eutrophication of the Dutch Canal in Sri Lanka
- Chapter 6 Pesticide Productivity and Vegetable Farming in Nepal
- Chapter 7 Forests, Hydrological Services, and Agricultural Income: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India
- Chapter 8 Can Mangroves Minimize Property Loss during Big Storms?: An Analysis of House Damages due to the Super Cyclone in Orissa
- Chapter 9 Valuation of Recreational Amenities from Environmental Resources: The Case of Two National Parks in Northern Pakistan
- Chapter 10 Valuing the Land of Tigers: What Indian Visitors Reveal
- Chapter 11 Estimating Welfare Losses from Urban Air Pollution using Panel Data from Household Health Diaries
- Chapter 12 Children in the Slums of Dhaka: Diarrhoea Prevalence and its Implications
- Chapter 13 Red Wells, Green Wells and the Costs of Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh
- Chapter 14 Air Quality and Cement Production: Examining the Implications of Point Source Pollution in Sri Lanka
- Chapter 15 Revisiting the Need for Improved Stoves: Estimating Health, Time and Carbon Benefits
- Chapter 16 Benefits from Reduced Air Pollution in Delhi and Kolkata: A Hedonic Property Price Approach
- Chapter 17 The Value of Statistical Life
- Chapter 18 An Assessment of Demand for Improved Household Water Supply in Southwest Sri Lanka
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Diarrhoeal disease is one of the five leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children aged between zero and five years. Global estimates show that deaths due to diarrhoea have declined from 4.6 million in the 1980s (Snyder and Merson, 1982) to 3.3 million in the 1990s (Bern et al., 1992) and to 2.5 million in 2000 (Kosek et al., 2003). Much of the improvement is possibly due to improvement in health treatment and management and increased use of Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) in the developing countries (WHO, 2004). However, morbidity has not shown a parallel decline despite the improvement in infrastructural facilities in developing countries. This is possibly because of limited changes in behavioural factors such as hand washing and low levels of awareness. The incidence of diarrhoea attacks among the children per year was at 3.2 episodes per child in 2000 in developing countries (Kosek et al., 2003).
In Bangladesh diarrhoeal diseases cotinue to play a significant role among the causes of death among children below five years of age according to the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) published by the Government of Bangladesh in 2002. These children are malnourished and therefore vulnerable to diarrhoea related deaths. Around 125,000 children under five die each year from diarrhoea, i.e. 342 children per day as per the PRSP repot.
As Bangladesh is a riverine country, floods are a common natural hazard.
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- Environmental Valuation in South Asia , pp. 276 - 305Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011