Water and Sanitation-Related Diseases and the Environment
Subtitle: challenges, interventions, and preventive measures
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Format: E-book
ISBN-13: 9781118148594
Notes: "Horizon International" - cover.
Janine Selendy is Founder, Chairman and President of HORIZON International, a non-profit organization based at Yale University, which addresses health, environment and disease issues worldwide. - Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Color Plates; title: Section I: Defining the Problem.; title: Part Introduction; title: Tackling the Water Crisis: A Continuing Need to Address Spatial and Social Equity / Jay Graham; title: Sanitation and Hygiene: Taking Stock After Three Decades / Jay Graham; title: Water and Health: The Demographic Background / Robert Wyman; title: Water and War: Averting Armed Conflict and Protecting Human Rights / Barry S Levy, Victor W Sidel; title: Section II: Water and Sanitation-Related Diseases.; title: Part Introduction; title: Infectious Diarrhea / Sean Fitzwater, Aruna Chandran, Margaret Kosek, Mathuram Santosham; title: Malnutrition and Undernutrition / Jeffrey K Griffiths; title: Soil-Transmitted Helminths:, and Hookworm Infections / Brian G Blackburn, Michele Barry; title: Toxic Cyanobacteria / Ian Stewart, Wayne W Carmichael, Lorraine C Backer; title: Dengue: A Water-Borne Disease / Scott B Halstead; title: Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease): Case Study of the Effort to Eradicate Guinea Worm / Donald R Hopkins, Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben; title: Onchocerciasis / Adrian Hopkins, Boakye A Boatin; title: Reassessing Multiple-Intervention Malaria Control Programs of the Past: Lessons for the Design of Contemporary Interventions / Burton H Singer, Marcia C Castro; title: Schistosomiasis / Pascal Magnussen, Birgitte Jyding Vennervald, Jens Aagaard-Hansen; title: Trachoma / Joseph A Cook, Silvio P Mariotti; title: Shigellosis / Michael L Bennish, M John Albert; title: The Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic of 2008₆2009 / Edward Dodge; title: Infectious Disease Control in Ghana: Government's Interventions and Challenges to Malaria Eradication / Julius N Fobil, Juergen May, Alexander Kraemer; title: Section III: Water Resources.; title: Part Introduction; title: Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Low-Income Countries / Thomas F Clasen; title: Informal Small-Scale Water Services in Developing Countries: The Business of Water for Those without Formal Municipal Connections / Laura Sima, Menachem Elimelech; title: Section IV: Sanitation and Hygiene.; title: Part Introduction; title: The Sanitation Challenge in India / Bindeshwar Pathak; title: Successful Sanitation Projects in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore / Jay P Graham; title: Household-Centered Environmental Sanitation Systems / Bindeshwar Pathak; title: Section V: Environmental Factors of Water Pollution.; title: Part Introduction; title: Naturally Occurring Water Pollutants / Lorraine C Backer, Jonathan K Kish, Helena M Solo-Gabriele, Lora E Fleming; title: Anthropogenic Sources of Water Pollution: Parts 1 and 2 / Kerry L Shannon, Robert S Lawrence, Danielle McDonald; title: The Hudson River: A Case Study of PCB Contamination / David O Carpenter, Gretchen Welfinger-Smith; title: Other Water Pollutants: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria / Amy R Sapkota; title: Section VI: Current and Future Trends in Preventing Water Pollution.; title: Part Introduction; title: Controlling Water Pollutants / Jeffery A Foran; title: Global Substitution of Mercury-Based Medical Devices in the Health Sector / Joshua Karliner, Peter Orris; title: Addressing Sources of PCBs and Other Chemical Pollutants in Water / Gretchen Welfinger-Smith, David O Carpenter; title: Additional Measures to Prevent, Ameliorate, and Reduce Water Pollution and Related Water Diseases: Global Water Governance / Nikhil Chandavarkar; title: Section VII: Emerging Issues in Ecology, Environment, and Disease.; title: Part Introduction; title: Changing Geographic Distribution of Disease Vectors / Mary E Wilson; title: Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon / Marcia C Castro, Burton H Singer; title: Ecosystem Services, Water Resource Development, and Human Infectious Disease / Uriel N Safriel; title: Ocean Pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts of Brominated Flame Retardants / Susan D Shaw, Kurunthachalam Kannan; title: Section VIII: Conclusion.; title: Part Introduction; title: Assessment of Progress in Meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals / Gretchen Loeffler Peltier, Unni Krishnan Karunakara, Anson Elisabeth Wright; title: Extending the Right to Health Care and Improving Child Survival in Mexico / Julio Frenk, Octavio ̤Gmez-Danťs; title: Using Kinship Structures in Health Programming--An Example of Preventive Measures and Successful Interventions / Moses N Katabarwa