The Association Between the WASH and Clean Cooking Fuel Access and the Nutritional Well-Being of Adolescents in China

Background Safe water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities (WASH) interventions and access to clean cooking fuels are widely recognized as important public health interventions to reduce environmental risk factors of undernutrition. However, limited evidence has been found associating access to WASH and clean cooking fuels with improved nutritional well-being and elucidating the mechanism behind the impact of those interventions. This paper aims to examine the relationship between WASH and clean fuel access and adolescence nutritional well-being and further to explore time spent on household chores, a socioeconomic mechanism that mediates the relationship between access to WASH and clean cooking fuels and the nutritional well-being of adolescents.