Assessment of microbiological water quality and its relation to human health in Gaza Governorate, Gaza Strip

Public Health

Volumn 120, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1177-1187

  Yassin, Maged Mohammed ^a   Amr, Salem S Abu ^a   Al Najar, Husam M ^a  

^a ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF GAZA   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Gaza Strip; Human health; Total and faecal coliforms; Water wells and networks

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FECAL COLIFORM; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISK; RISK FACTOR; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DESALINATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES COMPOSITION; FLOODING; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PALESTINE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLOSIS; SELF REPORT; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGE OF ONSET; ASCARIASIS; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; GIARDIASIS; HEPATITIS A; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE EAST; POPULATION DENSITY; SANITATION; SEWAGE; TYPHOID FEVER; URBAN HEALTH; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

AFRICA; GAZA; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33751440589     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.07.026     Document Type: Article

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