| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||
We conducted a systematic review of all studies that measured diarrheal health impacts in children and the impact on water quality of point-of-use chlorine drinking water treatment. Twenty-one relevant studies were identified from > 856 screened abstracts. Data were extracted and combined using meta-analysis to provide summary estimates of the intervention effect. The intervention reduced the risk of child diarrhea (pooled relative risk: 0.71, 0.58–0.87) and it reduced the risk of stored water contamination with Escherichia coli (pooled relative risk: 0.20, 0.13–0.30). A major finding from this review is that nearly all trials on this topic have been short (median length was 30 weeks). Although not statistically significant, we observed an attenuation of the intervention’s reduction of child diarrhea in longer trials. Future studies with multi-year follow-up are required to assess the long-term acceptability and sustainability of health impacts shown by the shorter trials identified in this review.
Received June 28, 2006. Accepted for publication October 30, 2006.
Acknowledgments: We are grateful for the useful comments that Catherine Wright provided during preparation of the manuscript. We also appreciate the detailed and constructive feedback provided by the editors and referees of this journal.
* Address correspondence to John M. Colford Jr., Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall 7360, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360. E-mail: jcolford{at}berkeley.edu
Authors’ addresses: Benjamin F. Arnold, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall 7360, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, E-mail: benarnold{at}berkeley.edu. John M. Colford Jr., Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall 7360, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7360, E-mail: jcolford{at}berkeley.edu.
This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
 |
|
  S. Jain, O. K. Sahanoon, E. Blanton, A. Schmitz, K. A. Wannemuehler, R. M. Hoekstra, and R. E. Quick Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate Tablets for Routine Treatment of Household Drinking Water in Periurban Ghana: A Randomized Controlled Trial Am J Trop Med Hyg, January 1, 2010; 82(1): 16 - 22. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 B. Arnold, B. Arana, D. Mausezahl, A. Hubbard, and J. M Colford Jr Evaluation of a pre-existing, 3-year household water treatment and handwashing intervention in rural Guatemala Int. J. Epidemiol., December 1, 2009; 38(6): 1651 - 1661. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
L. Ma, G. Zhang, B. Swaminathan, M. Doyle, and A. Bowen Efficacy of Protocols for Cleaning and Disinfecting Infant Feeding Bottles in Less Developed Communities Am J Trop Med Hyg, July 1, 2009; 81(1): 132 - 139. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
C. E. Stauber, G. M. Ortiz, D. P. Loomis, and M. D. Sobsey A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Concrete Biosand Filter and Its Impact on Diarrheal Disease in Bonao, Dominican Republic Am J Trop Med Hyg, February 1, 2009; 80(2): 286 - 293. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 C. K. deWilde, A. Milman, Y. Flores, J. Salmeron, and I. Ray An integrated method for evaluating community-based safe water programmes and an application in rural Mexico Health Policy Plan., November 1, 2008; 23(6): 452 - 464. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 S. P Luby Quality of drinking water BMJ, April 14, 2007; 334(7597): 755 - 756. [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
