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The Effect of India's Total Sanitation Campaign on Defecation Behaviors and Child Health in Rural Madhya Pradesh: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Sumeet R. Patil, Benjamin F Arnold, +4 authors Paul Gertler
PLoS medicine
2014

BACKGROUND Poor sanitation is thought to be a major cause of enteric infections among young children. However, there are no previously published randomized trials to measure the health impacts of… (More)

Household Environmental Conditions Are Associated with Enteropathy and Impaired Growth in Rural Bangladesh

Audrie Lin, Benjamin F Arnold, +8 authors Stephen P Luby
The American journal of tropical medicine and…
2013

We assessed the relationship of fecal environmental contamination and environmental enteropathy. We compared markers of environmental enteropathy, parasite burden, and growth in 119 Bangladeshi… (More)

Treating water with chlorine at point-of-use to improve water quality and reduce child diarrhea in developing countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Benjamin F Arnold, John M. Colford
The American journal of tropical medicine and…
2007

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… (More)

Serological Measures of Malaria Transmission in Haiti: Comparison of Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Methods

Benjamin F Arnold, Jeffrey W. Priest, Katy L. Hamlin, Delynn M. Moss, John M. Colford Jr, Patrick J. Lammie
PloS one
2014

BACKGROUND Efforts to monitor malaria transmission increasingly use cross-sectional surveys to estimate transmission intensity from seroprevalence data using malarial antibodies. To date,… (More)

Causal inference methods to study nonrandomized, preexisting development interventions.

Benjamin F Arnold, Ranjiv S. Khush, +7 authors John M. Colford
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
2010

Empirical measurement of interventions to address significant global health and development problems is necessary to ensure that resources are applied appropriately. Such intervention programs are… (More)

Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH Benefits study design and rationale

Benjamin F Arnold, Clair Null, +20 authors John M. Colford
BMJ open
2013

INTRODUCTION Enteric infections are common during the first years of life in low-income countries and contribute to growth faltering with long-term impairment of health and development. Water… (More)

Evaluation of a pre-existing, 3-year household water treatment and handwashing intervention in rural Guatemala.

Benjamin F Arnold, Byron A Arana, Daniel Mäusezahl, Alan Hubbard, John M. Colford
International journal of epidemiology
2009

BACKGROUND The promotion of household water treatment and handwashing with soap has led to large reductions in child diarrhoea in randomized efficacy trials. Currently, we know little about the… (More)

Using rapid indicators for Enterococcus to assess the risk of illness after exposure to urban runoff contaminated marine water.

John M. Colford, Kenneth C. Schiff, +13 authors Stephen B Weisberg
Water research
2012

BACKGROUND Traditional fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) measurement is too slow (>18 h) for timely swimmer warnings. OBJECTIVES Assess relationship of rapid indicator methods (qPCR) to illness at a… (More)

Simulation methods to estimate design power: an overview for applied research

Benjamin F Arnold, Daniel R. Hogan, John M. Colford, Alan Hubbard
BMC medical research methodology
2011

BACKGROUND Estimating the required sample size and statistical power for a study is an integral part of study design. For standard designs, power equations provide an efficient solution to the… (More)

A Stepped Wedge, Cluster-Randomized Trial of a Household UV-Disinfection and Safe Storage Drinking Water Intervention in Rural Baja California Sur, Mexico

Joshua S. Gruber, Fermín Reygadas, Benjamin F Arnold, Isha Ray, K. Douglas Nelson, John M. Colford
The American journal of tropical medicine and…
2013

In collaboration with a local non-profit organization, this study evaluated the expansion of a program that promoted and installed Mesita Azul, an ultraviolet-disinfection system designed to treat… (More)

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