Resources
Consult Core Econ’s Fact checker for a detailed list of sources.
Exercises
- Exercise 1: Sanitation and childhood mortality rates
- Exercise 2: Pathways to disease transmission
- Exercise 3: Modelling coordination problems using game theory
- Exercise 4: Explaining the effects of sanitation interventions
Figures
- Figure 1: The worldwide structure of mortality in 2019.
- Figure 2: The long-run history of child mortality.
- Figure 3: Child mortality rates by region (1950–2023).
- Figure 4: Diffusion of waterworks and sewerage systems in some selected countries (1870–1910s).
- Figure 5: Water statistics in Kolkata.
- Figure 6: Percentage of a country’s population with access to basic drinking water (2000–2022).
- Figure 7: Percentage of a country’s population with access to basic sanitation (2000–2022).
- Figure 8: Percentage of a country’s population that practise open defecation (2000–2022).
- Figure 9: Transmission routes (‘pathways’) of faecal–oral contamination. Arrows represent transmission routes for pathogens.
- Figure 10: Barriers to disease transmission arising from hygiene, sanitation, and water treatment at source or point of use (POU).
- Figure 11: A household’s choice of sanitation and consumption goods.
- Figure 12: The effects of policies that aim to increase a household’s choice of \(s\).
