Interpreting the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) Findings on Sanitation, Hygiene, and Diarrhea

Jonny Crocker; Jamie Bartram

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002011

Interpreting the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) Findings on Sanitation, Hygiene, and Diarrhea

PLoS Med. 2016 May 3;13(5):e1002011. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002011. eCollection 2016 May.

Authors

Jonny Crocker^{1

2}, Jamie Bartram^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ The Water Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
² Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.

Abstract

In this Perspective on the GEMS study by Kelly Baker and colleagues, Jonny Crocker and Jamie Bartram consider the implications of associations found and not found between diarrheal disease and sanitation and hygiene.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Diarrhea / epidemiology*
Diarrhea / etiology
Humans
Hygiene*
Sanitation*

Grants and funding

The authors were not funded to prepare this Perspective.