Water Quality : Guidelines, Standards and Health. Assessment of Risk and Risk Management for Water-related Infectious Diseases.

The potential to increase consistency in approaches to assessment and management of water-related microbial hazards was tackled by an international group of experts concerned with drinking water, irrigation and wastewater use and recreational/bathing water. It included individuals with expertise in...

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Author / Creator: Fewtrel, L.
Other Authors / Creators:Bartram, J.
Bartram, Jamie.
World Health Organization,.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Albany : World Health Organization, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Disclaimer
  • 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 Regulation of microbiological quality in the water cycle
  • 18 Framework for guidelines development in practice
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y.