Women, water management, and health

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2025-2026

  Watts, Susan ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

^b Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DIARRHEA; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; SANITATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEX ROLE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 7644228588     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1011.040237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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