What Drives Open-air Defecation and How Widespread Is It? A Mixed Methods Study from a Tribal Predominant Block of Jharkhand, India
The prevalence of OAD was higher among the tribal predominant study population. Those who had lower education status and living in kutcha house were at higher risk. Interventions addressing the identified factors remain essential to achieve SDG.
Authors
- G Jahnavi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8836-0072)
- Pratima Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2971-5355)
- Saurabh Varshney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1263-1980)
- Vinayagamoorthy Venugopal
- Rajesh Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0558-5410)
- Richa Richa
Institutions
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Indian Journal of Community Medicine
- Published
- 2025-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_469_24
- Primary Topic
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00