Combining interventions: Improved chimney stoves, kitchen sinks and solar disinfection of drinking water and kitchen clothes to improve home hygiene in rural Peru

Field Actions Science Report

Volumn 6, Issue 1 SPL, 2012, Pages

  Hartinger, Stella M ^a   Lanata, Claudio F ^b   Gil, Ana I ^c   Hattendorf, Jan ^a   Verastegui, Hector ^c   Mäusezahl, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA DE CIENCIAS APLICADAS   (Peru)

^c Instituto de Investigación Nutricional   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Home hygiene interventions; Household water treatment; Improved chimney stoves; Peru; Solar water disinfection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875066531     PISSN: 1867139X     EISSN: 18678521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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