Faces, flies, and fetor: Findings from a Peruvian shantytown

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 75-79

  Huttly, Sharon R A ^a   Lanata, Claudio F ^b   Yeager, Beth A C ^b   Fukumoto, Mary ^b   Del Aguila, Roberto ^b   Kendall, Carl ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HYGIENE; SANITATION;

ARTICLE; DEFECATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FECES; FLY; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTERVIEW; ODOR; PERU; WASTE DISPOSAL; FEMALE; INFANT; POVERTY; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; WASTE;

LIMA; PERU;

FECES; FEMALE; GARBAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; PERU; POVERTY; SANITARY ENGINEERING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032138923     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1020-49891998000800001     Document Type: Article

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