Water needs and women's health in the Kumasi metropolitan area, Ghana

Health and Place

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-103

  Buor, Daniel ^a  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Core; Kumasi metropolitan area; Periphery; Water fetching; Water scarcity; Women's health

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATER;

HEALTH IMPACT; METROPOLITAN AREA; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WOMENS HEALTH;

AGE; ARTICLE; EMPIRICISM; FEMALE; GENDER; GHANA; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; TECHNIQUE; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 0345293357     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(03)00050-9     Document Type: Article

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