Full title: Water quality : guidelines, standards and health : assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease / edited by Lorna Fewtrell and Jamie Bartram.

Author/creator: Bartram, Jamie, Fewtrell, Lorna.

Call Numbers: N363.61/21

Record Identifier: 74VvQ8Wmx7Nb

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xiv, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., 1. Harmonised assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease: an overview -- 2. Guidelines: the current position -- 3. The Global Burden of Disease study and applications in water, sanitation and hygiene -- 4. Endemic and epidemic infectious intestinal disease and its relationship to drinking water -- 5. Excreta-related infections and the role of sanitation in the control of transmission -- 6. Disease surveillance and waterborne outbreaks -- 7. Epidemiology: a tool for the assessment of risk -- 8. Risk assessment -- 9. Quality audit and the assessment of waterborne risk -- 10. Acceptable risk -- 11. A public health perspective for establishing water-related guidelines and standards -- 12. management strategies -- 13. Indicators of microbial water quality -- 14. Risk communication -- 15. Economic evaluation and priority-setting in water and sanitation interventions., 16. Implementation of guidelines: some practical aspects -- 17. Regluation of microbiological quality in the water cycle -- 18. Framework for guidelines development in practice.

Publishers: London : IWA Pub., c2001.

Notes: World Health Organization water series. Published on behalf of the World Health Organization. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 628.161, 363.7394, 363.61, 628.16

MMS ID: 991014611719702626