Promoting Household Water Treatment through Women's Self Help Groups in Rural India: Assessing Impact on Drinking Water Quality and Equity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Freeman, Matthew C ^a,b   Trinies, Victoria ^c   Boisson, Sophie ^b   Mak, Gregory ^c   Clasen, Thomas ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FECES; FEMALE; FILTER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEAT TREATMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PILOT STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; SELF HELP; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ADULT; DRINKING WATER; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; RURAL POPULATION; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL CLASS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WOMEN;

EID: 84866015790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044068     Document Type: Article

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