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Global issues in water, sanitation, and health : workshop summary / rapporteurs, Eileen R. Choffnes and Alison Mack ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

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"Recognizing water availability, water quality, and sanitation as fundamental issues underlying infectious disease emergence, the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine held a two-day public workshop in Washington, DC, on September 23 and 24, 2008. Through invited presentations...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Microbial Threats
Other Authors: Choffnes, Eileen R., Mack, Alison
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2009.
Series:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subjects:
Water quality management.
Sanitary engineering.
Public health.
Microbial ecology.
Risk management.
Communicable diseases.
Risk.
Sanitation.
Probabilities.
Microbiology.
Organization.
Infection.
Biology.
Statistics.
Medical care.
Health services administration.
Life sciences.
Diseases.
Physical sciences.
Risk assessment.
Water > Microbiology.
Emerging infectious diseases.
Water > Purification.
Methodology.
Epidemics.
Water-supply.
DVDs.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Table of Contents:
  • Global problems, local solutions
  • Lessons from waterborne disease outbreaks
  • Vulnerable infrastructure and waterborne disease risk
  • Addressing risk for waterborne disease.

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