Comments on the paper "Sociotechnical systems, risk management, and public health: Comparing the North Battleford and Walkerton outbreaks" by Woo and Vicente

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 343-345

  Hrudey, Steve E ^a   Hrudey, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HEALTH; RIVERS; WATER;

WATER DISEASE OUTBREAKS;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0141929394     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2003.08.005     Document Type: Letter

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