The magnitude of arsenic contamination in groundwater and its health effects to the inhabitants of the Jalangi - One of the 85 arsenic affected blocks in West Bengal, India

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 338, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 189-200

  Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudur ^a   Sengupta, Mrinal Kumar ^a   Ahamed, Sad ^a   Chowdhury, Uttam Kumar ^a   Hossain, Md Amir ^a   Das, Bhaskar ^a   Lodh, Dilip ^a   Saha, Kshitish Chandra ^b   Pati, Shymapada ^c   Kaies, Imrul ^d   Barua, Ajoy Kishore ^d   Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^d Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Arsenic groundwater contamination; Arsenic in biologic samples; Arsenic toxicity in children; Arsenical skin lesions; Jalangi block; Obstetric outcome; Population at risk

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH RISKS; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION STATISTICS; POTABLE WATER; SKIN; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TUMORS;

ARSENICAL SKIN LESIONS; BOWEN'S DISEASE; OBSTETRIC EXAMINATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO);

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER;

ARSENIC; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH IMPACT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOWEN DISEASE; FEMALE; HAIR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAIL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DISEASE; URINALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PUBLIC HEALTH; SKIN DISEASES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; JALANGI; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL; WORLD;

EID: 13844264147     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.06.022     Document Type: Article

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