Identifying the impediments and enablers of ecohealth for a case study on health and environmental sanitation in Hà Nam, Vietnam

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nguyen, Vi ^a,b,c   Nguyen Viet, Hung ^c,d,e   Pham Duc, Phuc ^c   Stephen, Craig ^f,g,h   McEwen, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c HANOI UNIVERSITY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g Centre for Coastal Health   (Canada)

^h NONE   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Case study; Ecohealth; Evaluation; Health; Sanitation; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; VIET NAM; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84930189166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-9957-3-36     Document Type: Article

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