Sarah Bick

Discussion of the challenges of synthesising impacts of WASH in schools and gender-disaggregated reporting in the article 👆

Thanks to co-authors @katherinedavies.bsky.social, Mwamba Mwenge, Clara MacLeod, @laurabraun.bsky.social, Jenala Chipungu, Kondwani Chidziwisano, @rdreibe.bsky.social

Venn diagram of overlapping components of school-based WASH interventions (left), and chart of the number of evaluations with health, educational or other outcomes by intervention type (right)

We looked at

• 83 experimental studies across 33 countries
• 93 diverse, and often complex WASH interventions
• 313 health / educational outcomes measured among schoolchildren…

…and *spoiler* most used an outcome definition unique to a single study!

WASH and learn: a scoping review of health, education and gender equity outcomes of school-based water, sanitation and hygiene in low-income and middle-income countries School-age children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) face health and educational challenges due to inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools (WinS). Evidence for the ...

👋 Hi Bluesky! Our scoping review of water, sanitation and hygiene in schools is now published in BMJ Global Health

Read on if you’re interested in
🧼 #WASH
🤸‍♀️ #AdolescentHealth
🔍 #EvidenceSynthesis
🎨 #dataviz ??

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Massive congrats to the team! 🎉

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Starter pack of researchers from EHG - the Environmental Health Group at LSHTM. There are >30 of us in EHG and our numbers are growing on Bluesky!

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EHG is on Bluesky!

The Environmental Health Group at @lshtm.bsky.social is a team of ~30 multidisciplinary academics whose research focuses how WASH influences health and wellbeing, and how investments in these services can improve people’s lives.

Read more about our work: tinyurl.com/3m4zh4sn