Relationships between flood control, kala-azar, and diarrheal disease in Bangladesh

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1051-1063

  Emch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FLOOD CONTROL; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 0034125097     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a32193     Document Type: Article

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