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Water and sanitation-related diseases and the environment challenges, interventions, and preventive measures

Janine M. H Selendy

Hoboken, N.J. Wiley-Blackwell c2011

Localização: EACH - Esc. Artes, Ciências e Humanidades    (DVD59 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Water and sanitation-related diseases and the environment challenges, interventions, and preventive measures
  • Autor: Janine M. H Selendy
  • Assuntos: Waterborne infection; Water -- Purification; Water Supply; Developing Countries; Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control; Sanitation; Water Microbiology; Water Pollution -- prevention & control; POLUIÇÃO DA ÁGUA; ABASTECIMENTO DE ÁGUA; PAÍSES EM DESENVOLVIMENTO; MICROBIOLOGIA DA ÁGUA; SANEAMENTO; DOENÇAS (PREVENÇÃO E CONTROLE)
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Descrição: Tackling the water crisis : a continuing need to address spatial and social equity / Sanitation and hygiene : taking stock after three decades / Water and health : the demographic background / Water and war : averting armed conflict and protecting human rights / Infectious diarrhea / Malnutrition and undernutrition / Soil-transmitted helminths : ascaris, trichuris, and hookworm infections / Toxic cyanobacteria / Dengue : a water-borne disease / Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) : case study of the effort to eradicate Guinea worm / Onchocerciasis / Reassessing multiple-intervention malaria control programs of the past : lessons for the design of contemporary interventions / Schistosomiasis / Trachoma / Shigellosis / The Zimbabwe cholera epidemic of 2008-2009 / Infectious disease control in Ghana : government's interventions and challenges to malaria eradication / Household water treatment and safe storage in low-income countries / Informal small-scale water services in developing countries : the business of water for those without formal municipal connections / The sanitation challenge in India / Successful sanitation projects in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore
    P. Graham -- Household-centered environmental sanitation systems / Naturally occurring water pollutants / Anthropogenic sources of water pollution : parts 1 and 2 / The Hudson River : a case of PCB contamination / Other water pollutants : antibiotic-resistant bacteria / Controlling water pollutants / Global substitution of mercury-based medical devices in the health sector / Addressing sources of PCBs and other chemical pollutants in water / Additional measures to prevent, ameliorate, and reduce water pollution and related water diseases : global water governance / Changing geographic distribution of disease vectors / Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon / Ecosystem services, water resource development, and human infectious disease / Ocean pollution : health and environmental impacts of brominated flame retardants / Assessment of progress in meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals / Extending the right to health care and improving child survival in Mexico / Using kinship structures in health programming : an example of preventive measures and successful interventions /
  • Editor: Hoboken, N.J. Wiley-Blackwell
  • Data de criação/publicação: c2011
  • Formato: xvii, 497 p., [16] p. of plates ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 28 cm. + 2 DVD-ROMs (4 3/4 in.).
  • Idioma: Inglês

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