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  • Title: Environmental health indicators and sanitation-related disease in developing countries: limitations to the use of routine data sources.
    Author: Kolsky PJ, Blumenthal UJ.
    Journal: World Health Stat Q; 1995; 48(2):132-9. PubMed ID: 8585231.
    Abstract:
    This article explores conceptual issues in the development and use of environmental health indicators for basic problems related to water and sanitation in developing countries. In this context, faecal contamination is the most important environmental health problem, responsible for the death of approximately 3 million children a year, and the infection of hundreds of millions. Good indicators would be invaluable in assessing the magnitude and source of such problems in different settings.
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