Assessing health impacts in complex eco-epidemiological settings in the humid tropics: Modular baseline health surveys

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-22

  Winkler, Mirko S ^a,b   Divall, Mark J ^c   Krieger, Gary R ^d   Schmidlin, Sandro ^a,b   Magassouba, Mohamed L ^e   Knoblauch, Astrid M ^c   Singer, Burton H ^f   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c SHAPE Consulting Ltd   (South Africa)

^d NewFields LLC   (United States)

^e Clinique Ambroise Paré   (Guinea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline health survey; Developing country; Health impact assessment; Industrial development project; Key performance indicators; Republic of Guinea

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEYS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; REPUBLIC OF GUINEA;

BENCHMARKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; IRON ORES; RATING; SURVEYS; TROPICS;

HEALTH;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BENCHMARKING; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH SURVEY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

GUINEA;

EID: 80155214524     PISSN: 01959255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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