Evaluation of an elementary school-based educational intervention for reducing arsenic exposure in Bangladesh

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1331-1336

  Khan, Khalid ^a   Ahmed, Ershad ^b   Factor Litvak, Pam ^a   Liu, Xinhua ^a   Siddique, Abu B ^b   Wasserman, Gail A ^c,d   Slavkovich, Vesna ^a   Levy, Diane ^d   Mey, Jacob L ^e   van Geen, Alexander ^e   Graziano, Joseph H ^a  

^a Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CREATININE; WELL WATER; DRINKING WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BANGLADESH; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION; URINALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; ARSENIC POISONING; CHEMISTRY; HEALTH EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; SCHOOL; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; BANGLADESH; CHILD; DRINKING WATER; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; SCHOOLS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84949190361     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1409462     Document Type: Article

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