Urinary fluoride as a monitoring tool for assessing successful intervention in the provision of safe drinking water supply in five fluoride-affected villages in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2343-2350

  Srikanth, R ^a   Gautam, Anil ^b   Jaiswal, Suresh Chandra ^c   Singh, Pavitra ^b  

^a DFID Project Bihar Health Society   (India)

^b People Science Institute   (India)

^c WATERAID   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternate safe sources; Dental fluorosis; Dhar; Groundwater; India; Madhya Pradesh; Urinary fluoride

Indexed keywords

DENTAL FLUOROSIS; DHAR; INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH; URINARY FLUORIDE;

GROUNDWATER; RURAL AREAS; WATER SUPPLY;

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE; GROUND WATER;

DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORIDE; GROUNDWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUOROSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; TOOTH DISEASE; URINE LEVEL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; MALE; STATISTICS; URINE; WATER POLLUTANT;

INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874987806     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2713-y     Document Type: Article

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