- Authors: Dean Spears, Lawrence Haddad
- Chapter in: The power of WASH
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Abstract
The year 2014 was an exciting time for nutrition research and policy action related to water, sanitation, and hygiene, or WASH. In terms of research, during the past year, a wide range of studies began to converge on evidence that WASH can be critical in shaping key nutrition outcomes, such as child height, one of the most important measures of a population’s well-being. The evidence regarding the nutritional consequences of sanitation was particularly strong, especially for open defecation without using a toilet or latrine, which is the focus of this chapter.