This paper presents findings from a study of household environmental problems in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. It includes the results of... Read more...
The relationship between personal and domestic hygiene behaviour and hospitalized childhood diarrhoea was examined in a case-control study of 356... Read more...
The study describes the development of health production functions and their application in the evaluation of the health impacts of investments in... Read more...
Based on studies reported in the literature, this review article demonstrates that weaning foods prepared under unhygienic conditions are frequently... Read more...
A total of 144 studies were analysed to assess the impact of improved water supply and sanitation facilities on ascariasis, diarrhoea, dracunculiasis... Read more...
Between 1 January and 31 July 1992 a cholera epidemic caused 548 reported cases in Riohacha (population 68,000), Colombia. Read more...
In 1986 a survey was conducted examining the performance of voluntary health promoters in slum areas around Pucallpa, Peru, three years after an... Read more...
Community-based studies of diarrhoea etiology and epidemiology were carried out from July 1982 - June 1984 in 153 infants living in a poor peri-urban... Read more...
In a 4-week period in early 1976 in a poor, working class area of Cali, Colombia, the prevalences of diarrhoea, vomiting, common cold, and head lice... Read more...
The study examines the prevalence of major water-related diseases, the relationship between disease, agriculture and nutrition; the status of water... Read more...