Modeling the Relationship of Groundwater Salinity to Neonatal and Infant Mortality From the Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey 2000 to 2014

We evaluated the relationship of drinking water salinity to neonatal and infant mortality using Bangladesh Demographic Health Surveys of 2000, 2004, 2007, 2011, and 2014. Point data of groundwater electrical conductivity (EC)— a measure of salinity—were collated from the Bangladesh Water Development...

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Published in:Geohealth 2020-02, Vol.4 (2), p.e2019GH000229-n/a
Main Authors: Naser, Abu Mohd, Wang, Qiao, Shamsudduha, Mohammad, Chellaraj, Gnanaraj, Joseph, George
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arsenic
Birth order
Calcium
Climate change
Coasts
Conductivity
Digitizing
Drinking water
Drinking water salinity
electrical conductivity
Geohealth
Groundwater
Groundwater data
Groundwater Hydrology
Health surveys
History of Geophysics
Households
Human Impact
Human Impacts
Hydrologic data
Hydrology
Impacts of Climate Change: Human Health
Infant mortality
Irrigation
Magnesium
Marital status
Natural Hazards
neonatal mortality
Neonates
Polls & surveys
Potassium
Principal components analysis
Public Health
Rural areas
Saline water
Salinity
Sanitation
Scientific imaging
Sodium
water calcium
Water resources development
water sodium
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Summary:We evaluated the relationship of drinking water salinity to neonatal and infant mortality using Bangladesh Demographic Health Surveys of 2000, 2004, 2007, 2011, and 2014. Point data of groundwater electrical conductivity (EC)— a measure of salinity—were collated from the Bangladesh Water Development Board and digitizing salinity contour map. Data for groundwater dissolved elements (sodium, calcium, magnesium, and potassium) data came from a national hydrochemistry survey in Bangladesh. Point EC and dissolved minerals data were then interpolated over entire Bangladesh and extracted to each cluster location, the primary sampling unit of Bangladesh Demographic Health Surveys. We used restricted cubic splines and survey design‐specific logistic regression models to determine the relationship of water salinity to neonatal and infant mortality. A U‐shaped association between drinking water salinity and neonatal and infant mortality was found, suggesting higher mortality when salinity was very low and high. Compared to mildly saline (EC ≥0.7 and 
ISSN:2471-1403
2471-1403
DOI:10.1029/2019GH000229