Diseases associated with poor water and sanitation: Hazards, prevention, and solutions

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-50

  Kulshrestha, Mukul ^a   Mittal, Atul K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN RIGHTS; HYGIENE; REVIEW; SANITATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; STANDARD; VIRUS INFECTION; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; SANITATION; VIRUS DISEASES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0141543930     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVEH.2003.18.1.33     Document Type: Review

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