Prevention of diarrhoea
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Water, sanitation and hygiene for the prevention of diarrhoea
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 debated. The evidence identified in previous reviews is of variable quality, and mostly relates to morbidity rather than mortality. METHODS We drew on three systematic reviews, two of them for the Cochrane Collaboration, focuss...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.55.8.529a