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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
Published London : IWA Pub., [2001]
©2001

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Description xiv, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series World Health Organization water series
World Health Organization water series.
Contents 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.00000000
Notes Published on behalf of the World Health Organization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Water quality management. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84720686
Subject Water quality management.
Public health.
Drinking water -- Contamination -- Health aspects.
Drinking water -- Standards -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Water quality.
Risk management.
Drinking water -- Health aspects.
Waterborne infection.
Health risk assessment.
Water quality -- Health aspects.
Water quality -- Standards.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Author Bartram, Jamie.
Fewtrell, Lorna.
World Health Organization.
ISBN 924154533X
1900222280
Other Titles Water quality guidelines, standards and health