Application of Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment to analyze the public health risk from poor drinking water quality in a low income area in Accra, Ghana

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 449, Issue , 2013, Pages 134-142

  Machdar, E ^a,c   van der Steen, N P ^a   Raschid Sally, L ^b   Lens, P N L ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^c TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Accra; Burden of disease; Cost effectiveness; DALY; Microbial risk assessment; Waterborne disease

Indexed keywords

ACCRA; ASCARIS; CAMPYLOBACTERS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DALY; DISEASE BURDENS; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; E. COLI; E.COLI O157:H7; HOUSEHOLD LEVEL; HYGIENE EDUCATION; LOW INCOMES; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENTS; REFERENCE LEVELS; RISK TO HUMAN HEALTH; ROTAVIRUSES; WATER SUPPLY NETWORKS; WATER-BORNE DISEASE;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH RISKS; RISK PERCEPTION; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER POLLUTION;

DRINKING WATER;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; DRINKING WATER; HEALTH RISK; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROORGANISM; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GHANA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; ROTAVIRUS; SEALED CONTAINER; STORAGE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

GHANA; HUMANS; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

ACCRA; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA;

EID: 84873738564     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.048     Document Type: Article

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