Prevalence of arsenic exposure from drinking water and awareness of its health risks in a Bangladeshi population: Results from a large population-based study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 355-359

  Parvez, Faruque ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Argos, Maria ^a   Iftikhar Hussain, A Z M ^b   Momotaj, Hassina ^b   Dhar, Ratan ^c   van Geen, Alexander ^d   Graziano, Joseph H ^a   Ahsan, Habibul ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine   (Bangladesh)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Awareness; Bangladesh; Drinking water; Environmental health; Public health

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; WELL WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BANGLADESH; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33644777734     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7903     Document Type: Article

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