The effects of informational interventions on household water management, hygiene behaviors stored drinking water quality and hand contamination in Peri-Urban Tanzania

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-191

  Davis, Jennifer ^a   Pickering, Amy J ^b   Rogers, Kirsten ^b   Mamuya, Simon ^c   Boehm, Alexandria B ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RISK REDUCTION; TANZANIA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH EDUCATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STANDARD; WATER SUPPLY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; TANZANIA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79952669626     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0126     Document Type: Article

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