Housing and child health in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional analysis
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Lucy S. Tusting aff001; Peter W. Gething aff002; Harry S. Gibson aff002; Brian Greenwood aff001; Jakob Knudsen aff003; Steve W. Lindsay aff004; Samir Bhatt aff002
Působiště autorů:
Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
aff001; Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
aff002; The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Copenhagen, Denmark
aff003; Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
aff004; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
aff005
Vyšlo v časopise:
Housing and child health in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional analysis. PLoS Med 17(3): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003055
Kategorie:
Research Article
doi:
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003055
Souhrn
Background
Housing is essential to human well-being but neglected in global health. Today, housing in Africa is rapidly improving alongside economic development, creating an urgent need to understand how these changes can benefit health. We hypothesised that improved housing is associated with better health in children living in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of housing conditions relative to a range of child health outcomes in SSA.
Methods and findings
Cross-sectional data were analysed for 824,694 children surveyed in 54 Demographic and Health Surveys, 21 Malaria Indicator Surveys, and two AIDS Indicator Surveys conducted in 33 countries between 2001 and 2017 that measured malaria infection by microscopy or rapid diagnostic test (RDT), diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections (ARIs), stunting, wasting, underweight, or anaemia in children aged 0–5 years. The mean age of children was 2.5 years, and 49.7% were female. Housing was categorised into a binary variable based on a United Nations definition comparing improved housing (with improved drinking water, improved sanitation, sufficient living area, and finished building materials) versus unimproved housing (all other houses). Associations between house type and child health outcomes were determined using conditional logistic regression within surveys, adjusting for prespecified covariables including age, sex, household wealth, insecticide-treated bed net use, and vaccination status. Individual survey odds ratios (ORs) were pooled using random-effects meta-analysis. Across surveys, improved housing was associated with 8%–18% lower odds of all outcomes except ARI (malaria infection by microscopy: adjusted OR [aOR] 0.88, 95% confidence intervals [CIs] 0.80–0.97, p = 0.01; malaria infection by RDT: aOR 0.82, 95% CI 0.77–0.88, p < 0.001; diarrhoea: aOR 0.92, 95% CI 0.88–0.97, p = 0.001; ARI: aOR 0.96, 95% CI 0.87–1.07, p = 0.49; stunting: aOR 0.83, 95% CI 0.77–0.88, p < 0.001; wasting: aOR 0.90, 95% CI 0.83–0.99, p = 0.03; underweight: aOR 0.85, 95% CI 0.80–0.90, p < 0.001; any anaemia: aOR 0.87, 95% CI 0.82–0.92, p < 0.001; severe anaemia: aOR 0.89, 95% CI 0.84–0.95, p < 0.001). In comparison, insecticide-treated net use was associated with 16%–17% lower odds of malaria infection (microscopy: aOR 0.83, 95% CI 0.78–0.88, p < 0.001; RDT: aOR 0.84, 95% CI 0.79–0.88, p < 0.001). Drinking water source and sanitation facility alone were not associated with diarrhoea. The main study limitations are the use of self-reported diarrhoea and ARI, as well as potential residual confounding by socioeconomic position, despite adjustments for household wealth and education.
Conclusions
In this study, we observed that poor housing, which includes inadequate drinking water and sanitation facility, is associated with health outcomes known to increase child mortality in SSA. Improvements to housing may be protective against a number of important childhood infectious diseases as well as poor growth outcomes, with major potential to improve children’s health and survival across SSA.
Klíčová slova:
anémia – Diarrhea – Housing – Child health – Malaria – Respiratory infections – Sanitation – Water resources
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