Sustainable control of water-related infectious diseases: A review and proposal for interdisciplinary health-based systems research

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1023-1032

  Batterman, Stuart ^a   EIsenberg, Joseph ^a   Hardin, Rebecca ^a   Kruk, Margaret E ^a   Lemos, Maria Carmen ^a   Michalak, Anna M ^a   Mukherjee, Bhramar ^a   Renne, Elisha ^a   Stein, Howard ^a   Watkins, Cristy ^a   Wilson, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection disease; Interdisciplinary; Malaria; Research; Systems approach; Water

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CASE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MOTIVATION; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RELATED INFECTIOUS DISEASE;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH; WATER;

EID: 67650924866     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800423     Document Type: Review

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