Is targeting access to sanitation enough?

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2014, Pages e619-e620

  Luby, Stephen ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECATION; DEFECATION HABIT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION EXPOSURE; SANITATION; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; DIARRHEA; HELMINTHIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; SOIL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

SOIL;

CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; DIARRHEA; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; SOIL; TOILET FACILITIES;

EID: 84916933636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70326-2     Document Type: Note

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