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Trends in access to water supply and sanitation in 31 major sub-Saharan African cities: an analysis of DHS data from 2000 to 2012

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, February 2014
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Title
Trends in access to water supply and sanitation in 31 major sub-Saharan African cities: an analysis of DHS data from 2000 to 2012
Published in
BMC Public Health, February 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-14-208
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Authors

Mike R Hopewell, Jay P Graham

Abstract

By 2050, sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) urban population is expected to grow from 414 million to over 1.2 billion. This growth will likely increase challenges to municipalities attempting to provide access to water supply and sanitation (WS&S). This study aims to characterize trends in access to WS&S in SSA cities and identify factors affecting those trends.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Unknown 168 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 46 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 15%
Researcher 21 12%
Student > Bachelor 14 8%
Lecturer 8 5%
Other 22 13%
Unknown 38 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 33 19%
Engineering 21 12%
Social Sciences 13 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 7%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 10 6%
Other 38 22%
Unknown 48 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 70. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 April 2020.
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#550,829
of 23,698,019 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#517
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Outputs of similar age
#5,315
of 222,198 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#9
of 281 outputs
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