Health risk assessment along the wastewater and faecal sludge management and reuse chain of Kampala, Uganda: A visualization

Geospatial Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 241-245

  Fuhrimann, Samuel ^a,b   Winkler, Mirko S ^a,b   Schneeberger, Pierre H H ^a,b,c,d   Niwagaba, Charles B ^e   Buwule, Joseph ^f   Babu, Mohammed ^g   Medlicott, Kate ^h   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b   Cissé, Guéladio ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

^d SPIEZ LABORATORY   (Switzerland)

^e MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^f Landmark Media Consultancy LTD   (Uganda)

^g National Water and Sewerage Corporation   (Uganda)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Faecal sludge; Health risk assessment; Sanitation safety planning; Uganda; Visualization; Wastewater reuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911945495     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2014.21     Document Type: Article

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