Waterborne diseases prevention: Evaluation of inspection scoring system for water sites according to water microbiological tests during the Athens 2004 pre-Olympic and Olympic period

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 829-835

  Hadjichristodoulou, Christos ^a,b   Mouchtouri, Varvara ^a,b   Vousoureli, Anastasia ^b   Konstantinidis, Athanasios ^a   Petrikos, Philipos ^b   Velonakis, Emmanuel ^b   Boufa, Panagiota ^c   Kremastinou, Jenny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^c Central Public Health Laboratory   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH SERVICES; SAMPLING; SURVEY; WATER RESOURCE; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SWIMMING POOL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD; WATER SUPPLY;

DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GREECE; HEALTH PLANNING; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING POOLS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

ACHAEA; ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; CENTRAL MACEDONIA; CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; HERAKLION [CRETE]; MAGNESIA; PATRAS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; THESSALY; VOLOS; WESTERN GREECE;

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 33749257529     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.041707     Document Type: Article

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