Background and Methods Cholera remains a significant threat to global public health with
an estimated 100,000 deaths per year. Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions …

Abstract Background Ever since John Snow's intervention on the Broad St pump, the effect
of water quality, hygiene and sanitation in preventing diarrhoea deaths has always been …

Many studies have reported the results of interventions to reduce illness through
improvements in drinking water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene practices in less …

We set out to determine the impact of washing hands with soap on the risk of diarrhoeal
diseases in the community with a systematic review with random effects meta-analysis. Our …

Of the 555 million preschool children in develo** countries, 32% are stunted and 20% are
underweight. 1 Child underweight or stunting causes about 20% of all mortality of children …

Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea - Clasen, TF - 2015 | Cochrane
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Objective To assess the effectiveness of interventions to improve the microbial quality of
drinking water for preventing diarrhoea. Design Systematic review. Data sources Cochrane …

Background Lack of access to and use of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) cause 1.6
million deaths every year, of which 1.2 million are due to gastrointestinal illnesses like …

This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and
useful book for health engineering and disease prevention, describes infectious diseases in …

A theoretical model is proposed that relates the level of ingestion of diarrhoea-causing
pathogens to the frequency of diarrhoea in the community. The implications of this model are …