The 2008/2009 cholera outbreak in Harare, Zimbabwe: Case of failure in urban environmental health and planning

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 117-124

  Chirisa, Innocent ^a   Nyamadzawo, Lisa ^a   Bandauko, Elmond ^a   Mutsindikwa, Nyasha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

cholera; communicable diseases; intervention; spatiality; urban environmental health

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; ZIMBABWE;

CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84930023817     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/reveh-2014-0075     Document Type: Article

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