The Conversation: Open defecation and the grim health toll of being one of the world’s many destitute

OPHI Director, Sabina Alkire, writes on the topic of open defecation.

'Any analysis worth its salt of what it means to be poor will include indicators explicitly linked to health – nutrition, for example, or mortality rates. But in reality, the many different aspects of poverty are inextricably intertwined, and there are no indicators which do not imply an adverse effect of one sort or another on the physical or mental health of the person experiencing them.'

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