Keeping clean water clean in a Malawi refugee camp: A randomized intervention trial

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 280-287

  Roberts, Les ^a,b   Chartier, Yves ^c   Chartier, Oana ^c   Malenga, Grace ^d   Toole, Michael ^a   Rodka, Henry ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE   (United States)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^d Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Diarrhea etiology; Drinking water microbiology; Households; Mozambique (source MeSH); Randomized controlled trials; Refugees; Regression analysis; Water pollution analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; REFUGEE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; CHOLERA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FECES; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; REFUGEE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

CHLORINE; DIARRHEA; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; MALAWI; REFUGEES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

MALAWI;

EID: 0035053577     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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