Critical pathway analysis to determine key uncertainties in net impacts on disease burden in Bangladesh of arsenic mitigation involving the substitution of arsenic bearing for groundwater drinking water supplies

Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part A Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1909-1917

  Adamson, George C D ^a   Polya, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Bangladesh; Critical pathway analysis; Disease burden; Hazard; Mitigation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; POTABLE WATER; STANDARDIZATION; SURFACE WATERS;

BANGLADESH; CRITICAL PATHWAY ANALYSIS; DISEASE BURDEN; HAZARD; MITIGATION;

DISEASES;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIOSAFETY; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DISABILITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTECTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 35348959066     PISSN: 10934529     EISSN: 15324117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10934520701567205     Document Type: Article

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