Relative benefits of on-plot water supply over other 'improved' sources in rural Vietnam

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-74

  Brown, Joe ^a   Hien, Vo Thi ^b   Mcmahan, Lanakila ^c   Jenkins, Marion W ^d   Thie, Lauren ^e   Liang, Kaida ^e   Printy, Erin ^e   Sobsey, Mark D ^e  

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

^b East Meets West Foundation   (Viet Nam)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of California Davis   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Approvisionnement en eau; Calidad del agua; Diarrhoeal disease; Enfermedad diarreica; Fuente de agua; Maladies diarrh iques; Qualit de l'eau; Water quality; Water supply

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DRINKING WATER; HEALTH RISK; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; VIET NAM; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

DIARRHEA; DRINKING WATER; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; VIETNAM; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

VIET NAM;

EID: 84871679889     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12010     Document Type: Article

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