DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fj6q5742f
title: Data from: Priority setting for global WASH challenges in the age of wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance

description: Background: It is not known how the number of deaths due to COVID-19
 compare to the number of deaths due to "unsafe water, sanitation, and
 handwashing" during the COVID-19 global health emergency. Methods: A
 dataset of  deaths due to COVID-19 was downloaded from the World
 Health Organization. A dataset summarizing deaths due to unsafe water,
 sanitation, and handwashing was obtained from the Institute for Health
 Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).   Results indicate that
 COVID-19 deaths in Africa and South East Asia regions exceeded those due
 to unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene. 
description: Two raw datasets were obtained and processed.  
 To construct the dataset, "Estimates of  mortality due to
 inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) during the COVID-19
 Global Health Emergency"  raw data were downloaded from the Institute
 for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The raw dataset was reduced,
 eliminating variables. The original IHME dataset was for the year 2019.
 IMHE does not yet have data for 2020 or beyond. The final data contains
 calculations that project into 2020-2023 the estimated number of
 WASH-related deaths, by region. That was done by multiplying the 2019
 estimated deaths by regions, by a factor of the duration of the pandemic
 period/the number of days in 2019, assuming a constant rate. 
 To construct the dataset "Estimates of COVID-19  mortality,
 by region January 3 2020-May 5, 2023, with assumptions about
 undercounting" raw data were downloaded from the public WHO
 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard. The raw dataset contains COVID-19
 mortality data by country, by date. The raw data were tabulated by region
 (rather than by country) and for the  period of January 3, 2020-May 5,
 2023 (rather than by date).
description: # Data from: Priority setting for global WASH challenges in the age of
 wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance
 A brief summary of dataset
 contents Dataset #1: Estimates of mortality due to inadequate water,
 sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) during the COVID-19 Global Health Emergency
 VARIABLES Region = The name for country groupings used by WHO\ Age
 category = All observations have either the value 1 (&lt;5 years) or 5
 (all ages) Deaths 2019 due to unsafe WASH point estimate = The point
 estimate for the number of deaths due to unsafe WASH in 2019, by WHO
 region, by age category Deaths 2019 due to unsafe WASH upper estimate =
 The upper bound estimate for the number of deaths due to unsafe WASH in
 2019, by WHO region, by age category Deaths 2019 due to unsafe WASH lower
 estimate = The lower bound estimate for the number of deaths due to unsafe
 WASH in 2019, by WHO region, by age category Estimated number Jan 3
 2020-May 5 2023 = The estimated number of deaths due to unsafe WASH from
 January 3, 2020 to the end of the global health COVID-19 Dataset #2:
 Estimates of COVID-19 mortality, by region January 3 2020-May 5, 2023,
 with assumptions about undercounting VARIABLES Region = self-explanatory
 Cumulative_deaths through May 5 2023 = self-explanatory Undercounting
 assumption = percentage of potential undercounting of COVID-19 deaths in
 specific regions Undercounting-corrected cumulative deaths = Estimate
 cumulative deaths in specified regions based on undercounting assumptions
 How raw data were obtained and final datasets were constructed Dataset #1
 (Estimates of mortality due to inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene
 (WASH) during the COVID-19 Global Health Emergency):\ Raw data were
 downloaded from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME),
 The raw dataset was
 reduced, eliminating variables. The original IHME dataset was for the year
 2019. IMHE does not yet have data for 2020 or beyond. The final data
 contains calculations that project into 2020-2023 the estimated number of
 WASH-related deaths, by region. That was done by multiplying the 2019
 estimated deaths by regions, by a factor of the duration of the pandemic
 period/the number of days in 2019, assuming a constant rate. Dataset #2
 (Estimates of COVID-19 mortality, by region January 3 2020-May 5, 2023,
 with assumptions about undercounting): Raw data were downloaded from the
 WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard, The
 raw dataset contains COVID-19 mortality data by country, by date. The raw
 data were tabulated by region (rather than by country) and for the period
 of January 3, 2020-May 5, 2023 (rather than by date).