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

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Selendy, Janine M.
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, [2011]
• Θέματα: Waterborne infection.; Water > Purification.; Water Supply.; Developing Countries.; Disease Outbreaks > prevention & control.; Sanitation.; Water Microbiology.; Water Pollution > prevention & control.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.; Electronic books.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Frontmatter
• Color Plates
• Section I: Defining the Problem. Part Introduction
• Tackling the Water Crisis: A Continuing Need to Address Spatial and Social Equity / Jay Graham
• Sanitation and Hygiene: Taking Stock After Three Decades / Jay Graham
• Water and Health: The Demographic Background / Robert Wyman
• Water and War: Averting Armed Conflict and Protecting Human Rights / Barry S Levy, Victor W Sidel
• Section II: Water and Sanitation-Related Diseases. Part Introduction
• Infectious Diarrhea / Sean Fitzwater, Aruna Chandran, Margaret Kosek, Mathuram Santosham
• Malnutrition and Undernutrition / Jeffrey K Griffiths
• Soil-Transmitted Helminths:, and Hookworm Infections / Brian G Blackburn, Michele Barry
• Toxic Cyanobacteria / Ian Stewart, Wayne W Carmichael, Lorraine C Backer
• Dengue: A Water-Borne Disease / Scott B Halstead
• Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease): Case Study of the Effort to Eradicate Guinea Worm / Donald R Hopkins, Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben
• Onchocerciasis / Adrian Hopkins, Boakye A Boatin
• Reassessing Multiple-Intervention Malaria Control Programs of the Past: Lessons for the Design of Contemporary Interventions / Burton H Singer, Marcia C Castro
• Schistosomiasis / Pascal Magnussen, Birgitte Jyding Vennervald, Jens Aagaard-Hansen
• Trachoma / Joseph A Cook, Silvio P Mariotti
• Shigellosis / Michael L Bennish, M John Albert
• The Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic of 2008₆2009 / Edward Dodge
• Infectious Disease Control in Ghana: Government's Interventions and Challenges to Malaria Eradication / Julius N Fobil, Juergen May, Alexander Kraemer
• Section III: Water Resources. Part Introduction
• Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Low-Income Countries / Thomas F Clasen
• Informal Small-Scale Water Services in Developing Countries: The Business of Water for Those without Formal Municipal Connections / Laura Sima, Menachem Elimelech
• Section IV: Sanitation and Hygiene. Part Introduction
• The Sanitation Challenge in India / Bindeshwar Pathak
• Successful Sanitation Projects in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore / Jay P Graham
• Household-Centered Environmental Sanitation Systems / Bindeshwar Pathak
• Section V: Environmental Factors of Water Pollution. Part Introduction
• Naturally Occurring Water Pollutants / Lorraine C Backer, Jonathan K Kish, Helena M Solo-Gabriele, Lora E Fleming
• Anthropogenic Sources of Water Pollution: Parts 1 and 2 / Kerry L Shannon, Robert S Lawrence, Danielle McDonald
• The Hudson River: A Case Study of PCB Contamination / David O Carpenter, Gretchen Welfinger-Smith
• Other Water Pollutants: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria / Amy R Sapkota
• Section VI: Current and Future Trends in Preventing Water Pollution. Part Introduction
• Controlling Water Pollutants / Jeffery A Foran
• Global Substitution of Mercury-Based Medical Devices in the Health Sector / Joshua Karliner, Peter Orris
• Addressing Sources of PCBs and Other Chemical Pollutants in Water / Gretchen Welfinger-Smith, David O Carpenter
• Additional Measures to Prevent, Ameliorate, and Reduce Water Pollution and Related Water Diseases: Global Water Governance / Nikhil Chandavarkar
• Section VII: Emerging Issues in Ecology, Environment, and Disease. Part Introduction
• Changing Geographic Distribution of Disease Vectors / Mary E Wilson
• Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon / Marcia C Castro, Burton H Singer
• Ecosystem Services, Water Resource Development, and Human Infectious Disease / Uriel N Safriel
• Ocean Pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts of Brominated Flame Retardants / Susan D Shaw, Kurunthachalam Kannan
• Section VIII: Conclusion. Part Introduction
• Assessment of Progress in Meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals / Gretchen Loeffler Peltier, Unni Krishnan Karunakara, Anson Elisabeth Wright
• Extending the Right to Health Care and Improving Child Survival in Mexico / Julio Frenk, Octavio G̤mez-Danťs
• Using Kinship Structures in Health Programming--An Example of Preventive Measures and Successful Interventions / Moses N Katabarwa
• Index.