It was this public health crisis that had brought Stephen Luby to Pakistan
: Atul Gawande,
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random
House, 2014).
“In Pakistan, Safeguard was a premium soap”
: All quotes in this section are from an email conversation with Stephen Luby on May 28, 2018.
The rate of diarrhea fell by 52 percent
: Stephen P. Luby et al., “Effect of Handwashing on Child Health: A Randomised Controlled Trial,”
Lancet 366, no. 9481 (2005),
doi:10.1016/s0140–6736(05)66912–7.
“Over 95 percent of households”
: Anna Bowen, Mubina Agboatwalla, Tracy Ayers, Timothy Tobery, Maria Tariq, and Stephen P. Luby. “Sustained improvements in handwashing
indicators more than 5 years after a cluster‐randomised, community‐based trial of handwashing promotion in Karachi, Pakistan,”
Tropical Medicine & International
Health 18, no. 3 (2013): 259–267.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4626884/
