TY - JOUR
T1 - Household water sharing
T2 - A missing link in international health
AU - Stoler, Justin
AU - Brewis, Alexandra
AU - Harris, Leila M.
AU - Wutich, Amber
AU - Pearson, Amber L.
AU - Rosinger, Asher Y.
AU - Schuster, Roseanne C.
AU - Young, Sera L.
N1 - Funding Information:
by Competitive Research Grants to Develop Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition (IMMANA; IMMANA is funded with aid from the UK government) and by R21MH108444 from the National Institute of Mental Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Science Foundation, IMMANA, the National Institute of Mental Health or the National Institutes of Health.
Funding Information:
Funding: The HWISE Research Coordination Network was supported by National Science Foundation award BCS-1759972, and AW was supported by awards SES-1462086 and DEB-1637590. SLY was supported
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - Water insecurity massively undermines health, especially among impoverished and marginalized communities. Emerging evidence shows that household-to-household water sharing is a widespread coping strategy in vulnerable communities. Sharing can buffer households from the deleterious health effects that typically accompany seasonal shortages, interruptions of water services and natural disasters. Conversely, sharing may also increase exposure to pathogens and become burdensome and distressing in times of heightened need. These water sharing systems have been almost invisible within global health research but need to be explored, because they can both support and undermine global public health interventions, planning and policy.
AB - Water insecurity massively undermines health, especially among impoverished and marginalized communities. Emerging evidence shows that household-to-household water sharing is a widespread coping strategy in vulnerable communities. Sharing can buffer households from the deleterious health effects that typically accompany seasonal shortages, interruptions of water services and natural disasters. Conversely, sharing may also increase exposure to pathogens and become burdensome and distressing in times of heightened need. These water sharing systems have been almost invisible within global health research but need to be explored, because they can both support and undermine global public health interventions, planning and policy.
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U2 - 10.1093/inthealth/ihy094
DO - 10.1093/inthealth/ihy094
M3 - Article
C2 - 30576501
AN - SCOPUS:85064843393
SN - 1876-3413
VL - 11
SP - 163
EP - 165
JO - International health
JF - International health
IS - 3
ER -