Arsenic in tube well water in Bangladesh: Health and economic impacts and implications for arsenic mitigation;Aarsenic dans l'eau des puits tubulaires au Bangladesh: Impacts sanitaires et économiques, et implications en vue de sa réduction

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 839-846

  Flanagan, Sara V ^a   Johnston, Richard B ^b   Zheng, Yan ^a  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; WATER POLLUTANT; WELL WATER;

ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; BANGLADESH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; STANDARDS; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; BANGLADESH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING WATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER WELLS;

EID: 84868258888     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.101253     Document Type: Article

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