Estimating the burden of disease from water, sanitation, and hygiene at a global level.
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Summary
This preliminary estimation of the global disease burden caused by water, sanitation, and hygiene provides a basic model that could be further refined for national or regional assessments and suggests that it should be a priority for public health policy.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2002-05-01
- Cited by
- 918
- References
- 22
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W2072031788
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10874803
Keywords
Sanitation, Environmental health, Hygiene, Burden of disease, Disease burden
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