Lack of toilets and safe water in health-care facilities

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 210-

  Bartram, Jamie ^a   Cronk, Ryan ^a   Montgomery, Maggie ^b   Gordon, Bruce ^b   Neira, Maria ^b   Kelley, Edward ^b   Velleman, Yael ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c WATERAID   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; EDITORIAL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION; MANPOWER; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEWBORN DEATH; SANITATION; STAFF TRAINING; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HAND DISINFECTION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARDS; WATER QUALITY;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HAND DISINFECTION; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; SANITATION; TOILET FACILITIES; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84961287845     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.15.154609     Document Type: Editorial

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