Ian Ro

Biographic Data

ID	3581707
NAME	Ian Ro
GIVEN NAMES	Ian
FAMILY NAME	Ro
SIGNATURE	RO I
AFFILIATIONS	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID	0000-0002-2218-5400
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	13
TOTAL CITATIONS	9
WORKS AS AUTHOR	13
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	2

Effectiveness of domestic food hygiene interventions on the microbiological quality of child food and childhood diarrhoea
Open AccessLaura Braun, Clara MacLeod et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026
Background Foodborne diseases are an important cause of global morbidity and mortality, particularly among children who often experience diarrhoeal illnesses linked to foodborne enteric infections. Evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce diarrhoea remains limited. This review synthesised evidence on the effectiveness of domestic food hygiene interventions on microbiological quality of child food and diarrhoea in children under fi…
Gender equality and quality of life must be central to the design and delivery of sanitation
Open AccessAkanksha Marphatia, Sheillah Simiyu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025
box Sanitation is critical to improving quality of life and gender equality
Validity of a visual analogue scale to measure and value the perceived level of sanitation
Open AccessHo Hei Cheung, Zaida Adriano et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025
Two billion people globally lack access to a basic toilet, and sanitation is a critical determinant of health and well-being. Evaluations of sanitation programmes typically measure disease or behaviour, and visual analogue scales (VASs) have not been used to measure users’ feelings about their level of sanitation. In this study, we assess the validity of a horizontal sanitation VAS numbered 0–10, with end anchors ‘best imaginable’ and ‘worst imag…
Water, sanitation and hygiene (Wash)
Open AccessSaskia De Wit, Euphrasia Luseka et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024
Despite some progress, universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) by 2030—a remit of Sustainable Development Goal 6—remains a distant prospect in many countries. Policy-makers and implementers of the WASH sector are challenged to track a new path. This research aimed to identify core orienting themes of the sector, as legacies of past processes, which can provide insights for its future. We reviewed global policy, science and p…
Costs of hand hygiene for all in household settings
Open AccessIan Ro, Joanna Esteves Mills et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021
INTRODUCTION: Domestic hand hygiene could prevent over 500 000 attributable deaths per year, but 6 in 10 people in least developed countries (LDCs) do not have a handwashing facility (HWF) with soap and water available at home. We estimated the economic costs of universal access to basic hand hygiene services in household settings in 46 LDCs. METHODS: Our model combines quantities of households with no HWF and prices of promotion campaigns, HWFs,…
Using path analysis to test theory of change
Open AccessSarah Bick, Hilary Buxton et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021
MapSan trial registration: NCT02362932 Feb-13-2015
How does sanitation influence people's quality of life? Qualitative research in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique
Open AccessIan Ro, Oliver Cummings et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Cited by: 4References: 30
Preventing infectious disease has often been the primary rationale for public investment in sanitation. However, broader aspects of sanitation such as privacy and safety are important to users across settings, and have been linked to mental wellbeing. The aim of this study is to investigate what people most value about sanitation in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique, to inform a definition and conceptual model of sanitation-related quality o…
Benefits and Costs of a Community-Led Total Sanitation Intervention in Rural Ethiopia—A Trial-Based Ex Post Economic Evaluation
Open AccessSeungman Cha, Sunghoon Jung et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020
We estimated the costs and benefits of a community-led total sanitation (CLTS) intervention using the empirical results from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Ethiopia. We modelled benefits and costs of the intervention over 10 years, as compared to an existing local government program. Health benefits were estimated as the value of averted mortality due to diarrheal disease and the cost of illness arising from averted diarrheal morb…
Spreading the News
Mike Gasher, Michael Hayes et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Communication2007
As part of a research program called CHAMP (Canadian Health and Media Project) devoted to examining health literacy in Canadian daily newspapers, and operating from a theoretical framework that posits journalism as a practice of representation, this article is based on a series of formal interviews with English-language and French-language health reporters. The interviews sought answers to three central questions about health reportage: how do jo…
The Cambridge History of Irish Literature
Open AccessMaureen Kelleher, Tomás Ó Cathasaigh et al.BOOKCambridge History of Irish…2006
This is the first comprehensive history of Irish literature in both its major languages, Irish and English. The twenty-eight chapters in this two-volume history provide an authoritative chronological survey of the Irish literary tradition. Spanning fifteen centuries of literary achievement, the two volumes range from the earliest medieval Latin texts to the late twentieth century. The contributors, drawn from a range of Irish, British and North A…
The Physiocrats and Adam Smith
Open AccessIan Ro, Ian Simpson Ross et al.ARTICLEJournal for Eighteenth-Century…1984Cited by: 4
The Theory and Practice of the Wise and Virtuous Man
T D Campbell, Ian Ro et al.ARTICLEStudies in eighteenth century…1982Cited by: 1
The Theory and Practice of the Wise and Virtuous Man: Reflections on Adam Smith's Response to Hume's Deathbed Wish T. D. CAMPBELL AND IAN ROSS In the sixth edition (1790) of the Theory of Moral Sentiments1 Adam Smith added a new part (VI). There he included lengthy and elegant de scriptions of the conduct of the perfectly wise and virtuous man which serve to indicate the direction of his normative ethics in the latter years of his life.2 Accordi…
Body Snatching in Nineteenth Century Britain
Ian Ro, I Clunies Ross et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Law and Society1979

Body Snatching in Nineteenth Century Britain
Ian Ro, I Clunies Ross et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Law and Society1979
The Theory and Practice of the Wise and Virtuous Man
T D Campbell, Ian Ro et al.ARTICLEStudies in eighteenth century…1982Cited by: 1
The Theory and Practice of the Wise and Virtuous Man: Reflections on Adam Smith's Response to Hume's Deathbed Wish T. D. CAMPBELL AND IAN ROSS In the sixth edition (1790) of the Theory of Moral Sentiments1 Adam Smith added a new part (VI). There he included lengthy and elegant de scriptions of the conduct of the perfectly wise and virtuous man which serve to indicate the direction of his normative ethics in the latter years of his life.2 Accordi…
The Physiocrats and Adam Smith
Open AccessIan Ro, Ian Simpson Ross et al.ARTICLEJournal for Eighteenth-Century…1984Cited by: 4
The Cambridge History of Irish Literature
Open AccessMaureen Kelleher, Tomás Ó Cathasaigh et al.BOOKCambridge History of Irish…2006
This is the first comprehensive history of Irish literature in both its major languages, Irish and English. The twenty-eight chapters in this two-volume history provide an authoritative chronological survey of the Irish literary tradition. Spanning fifteen centuries of literary achievement, the two volumes range from the earliest medieval Latin texts to the late twentieth century. The contributors, drawn from a range of Irish, British and North A…
Spreading the News
Mike Gasher, Michael Hayes et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Communication2007
As part of a research program called CHAMP (Canadian Health and Media Project) devoted to examining health literacy in Canadian daily newspapers, and operating from a theoretical framework that posits journalism as a practice of representation, this article is based on a series of formal interviews with English-language and French-language health reporters. The interviews sought answers to three central questions about health reportage: how do jo…
Benefits and Costs of a Community-Led Total Sanitation Intervention in Rural Ethiopia—A Trial-Based Ex Post Economic Evaluation
Open AccessSeungman Cha, Sunghoon Jung et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020
We estimated the costs and benefits of a community-led total sanitation (CLTS) intervention using the empirical results from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Ethiopia. We modelled benefits and costs of the intervention over 10 years, as compared to an existing local government program. Health benefits were estimated as the value of averted mortality due to diarrheal disease and the cost of illness arising from averted diarrheal morb…
Costs of hand hygiene for all in household settings
Open AccessIan Ro, Joanna Esteves Mills et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021
INTRODUCTION: Domestic hand hygiene could prevent over 500 000 attributable deaths per year, but 6 in 10 people in least developed countries (LDCs) do not have a handwashing facility (HWF) with soap and water available at home. We estimated the economic costs of universal access to basic hand hygiene services in household settings in 46 LDCs. METHODS: Our model combines quantities of households with no HWF and prices of promotion campaigns, HWFs,…
Using path analysis to test theory of change
Open AccessSarah Bick, Hilary Buxton et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021
MapSan trial registration: NCT02362932 Feb-13-2015
How does sanitation influence people's quality of life? Qualitative research in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique
Open AccessIan Ro, Oliver Cummings et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Cited by: 4References: 30
Preventing infectious disease has often been the primary rationale for public investment in sanitation. However, broader aspects of sanitation such as privacy and safety are important to users across settings, and have been linked to mental wellbeing. The aim of this study is to investigate what people most value about sanitation in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique, to inform a definition and conceptual model of sanitation-related quality o…
Water, sanitation and hygiene (Wash)
Open AccessSaskia De Wit, Euphrasia Luseka et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024
Despite some progress, universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) by 2030—a remit of Sustainable Development Goal 6—remains a distant prospect in many countries. Policy-makers and implementers of the WASH sector are challenged to track a new path. This research aimed to identify core orienting themes of the sector, as legacies of past processes, which can provide insights for its future. We reviewed global policy, science and p…
Gender equality and quality of life must be central to the design and delivery of sanitation
Open AccessAkanksha Marphatia, Sheillah Simiyu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025
box Sanitation is critical to improving quality of life and gender equality
Validity of a visual analogue scale to measure and value the perceived level of sanitation
Open AccessHo Hei Cheung, Zaida Adriano et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025
Two billion people globally lack access to a basic toilet, and sanitation is a critical determinant of health and well-being. Evaluations of sanitation programmes typically measure disease or behaviour, and visual analogue scales (VASs) have not been used to measure users’ feelings about their level of sanitation. In this study, we assess the validity of a horizontal sanitation VAS numbered 0–10, with end anchors ‘best imaginable’ and ‘worst imag…
Effectiveness of domestic food hygiene interventions on the microbiological quality of child food and childhood diarrhoea
Open AccessLaura Braun, Clara MacLeod et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026
Background Foodborne diseases are an important cause of global morbidity and mortality, particularly among children who often experience diarrhoeal illnesses linked to foodborne enteric infections. Evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce diarrhoea remains limited. This review synthesised evidence on the effectiveness of domestic food hygiene interventions on microbiological quality of child food and diarrhoea in children under fi…