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    How People Prioritize Health Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic:Evidence from Seven Developing Countries
    (Research Square (United States), 2022) Dale Whittington; Richard T. Carson; W. Michael Hanemann; Gunnar Köhlin; Wiktor Adamowicz; Thomas Sterner; Franklin Amuakwa‐Mensah; Francisco Alpízar; Emily A. Khossravi; Marc Jeuland
    Abstract We provide estimates of health priorities during the COVID-19 pandemic based on web-surveys administered in seven developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in 2022. Using the best-worst scaling method, respondents ranked the importance of seven health problems, including COVID-19 (the others were alcohol and drugs, HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, other respiratory diseases, and water-borne diseases). Respondents in most countries considered COVID-19 a serious problem but ranked other respiratory illness as more serious. Respondents’ rankings were generally consistent with relative disease prevalence when it can be reasonably well measured (i.e., malaria and TB). Differences in priorities across countries were generally larger than within-country differences. The importance respondents assigned to COVID-19 was associated with their knowledge of COVID-19. These results have implications for the allocation of health resources: policymakers may face resistance if their actions are viewed as focusing too much on COVID-19 while neglecting other, potentially serious health problems.
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    Sustaining the benefits of rural water supply investments: Experience from Cochabamba and Chuquisaca, Bolivia
    (Wiley, 2008) Jennifer Davis; Heather Lukacs; Marc Jeuland; Alfonso Alvestegui; Betty Soto; G Aguayo Lizarraga; Alex Bakalian; Wendy Wakeman
    Many rural water supply interventions in developing countries have been marked by a poor record of sustainability. Considerable progress has been made over the past several decades on the development of lower‐cost technologies that are easier for communities in developing countries to maintain and also on improving project design and implementation to enhance sustainability of outcomes. Less attention has been given to the necessary and sufficient supports for water system maintenance in the postconstruction period. This study explores the contribution of various types of postconstruction support (PCS) to the sustainability of rural water supply systems in Bolivia. Using regression and matched pair statistical analyses, the effects of PCS on water system performance and user satisfaction with service are modeled. Communities that received management‐oriented PCS visits from external agencies, and those whose system operators attended training workshops, had better performing systems than communities that received no such support. Engineering‐oriented PCS visits to communities had no measurable impact on system functioning or user satisfaction.