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Half Bottle Filled: Hygiene and Sanitation in India’s Backyard


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The parameters dealing with hygiene and sanitation are results of a number of micro-decisions that are taken by poor people (Banerjee and Duflo, 2011, 2019). The present study attempts to examine the consequences of such micro-choice decisions in terms of provision for sanitation and hygiene conditions for morbidity. It shows that the environmental living conditions are associated with morbidity. It also finds relation between personal hygienic behaviour of the individuals and occurrence of infection. In case of women, a close and significant relationship is found between the use of sanitary napkins in managing menstruation and proneness to infection.
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Authors

Atanu Sengupta
Department of Economics, Burdwan University, Burdwan 713104 West Bengal, India
Suchismita Mondal Sarkar
Department of Economics, Burdwan University, Burdwan 713104, West Bengal, India
Sayantan Mukherjee
Department of Economics, Burdwan University, Burdwan 713104, West Bengal, India

Abstract


The parameters dealing with hygiene and sanitation are results of a number of micro-decisions that are taken by poor people (Banerjee and Duflo, 2011, 2019). The present study attempts to examine the consequences of such micro-choice decisions in terms of provision for sanitation and hygiene conditions for morbidity. It shows that the environmental living conditions are associated with morbidity. It also finds relation between personal hygienic behaviour of the individuals and occurrence of infection. In case of women, a close and significant relationship is found between the use of sanitary napkins in managing menstruation and proneness to infection.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21648/arthavij%2F2020%2Fv62%2Fi2%2F196368