An integrated method for evaluating community-based safe water programmes and an application in rural Mexico

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 452-464

  DeWilde, Carol Kolb ^a   Milman, Anita ^b   Flores, Yvonne ^c   Salmerón, Jorge ^c   Ray, Isha ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Access; Community participation; Developing countries; Evaluation; Water

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; EVALUATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; MEXICO; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; POPULATION SIZE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFE WATER PROGRAMME; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

MEXICO; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL POPULATION; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 54249100427     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czn017     Document Type: Review

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