Household latrine utilization and its association with educational status of household heads in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ethiopia has been experiencing a high prevalence of communicable diseases, which resulted in high morbidity, mortality, and hospital admission rates. One of the highest contributing factors for this is lower level of latrine utilization. There had been significantly varying finding reports with regard to the level of latrine utilization and its association with education level from different pocket studies in the country. Therefore, this systematic review and meta-analysis was aimed to estimate the pooled prevalence of household latrine utilization and its association with education status of household heads, in Ethiopia using available studies.

Methods

This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted using available data from the international databases, in

SUBMITTER: Leshargie CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6053729 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature