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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
(Smith et al, 1999), the vast majority of this being borne by developing countries. Diarrhoeal disease and ARI between them account for half of the global burden of environmentally related disease ... Cairncross, 2003). Diarrhoeal disease Diarrhoeal disease causes 15% of all child deaths worldwide. There are environmental interventions for the control of diarrhoeal disease that are ...
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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
The principal outcome is diarrhoeal disease; by any reckoning, more than 90% of the health benefits of improved water supplies and sanitation arise from reduced diarrhoeal illness, most of it ... latrines may have less diarrhoeal disease, but this does not necessarily prove that the latrines are the cause. With more than 3 million children dying of diarrhoeal disease each year, a 25% ...
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HarvestH2O.com :: The Online Rainwater Harvesting Community
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Lee Jong-Wook said the collective failure to tackle diarrhoeal disease, which was killing 30,000 people per week, was "a silent humanitarian crisis" that impeded ...
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Climate change
... development; b. increased deaths, disease and injury due to heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts; c. the increased burden of diarrhoeal disease; d. the increased frequency of cardio-respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground level ozone related to climate change; and, e. the altered spatial distribution of some infectious disease ...
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Lifewater International - what we do - hygiene education
(World Health Organization) The simple act of washing hands with soap and water can reduce diarrhoeal diseases by over 40%. (World Health Organization) Simply having access to clean, safe water alone ... good hygiene behavior, and as a result, use their new safe water supply to fight disease more effectively. The lessons have a holistic approach, meeting people’s physical and spiritual needs ...
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Focus: Environmental degradation is contributing to health threats worldwide
Another 3 million children die each year of diarrhoeal diseases related to a lack of clean water and sanitation. - Cholera, long banished from Latin ... industrial pollution, including air pollution and toxic wastes, and biological sources such as food-borne disease. Indeed: - More than 100 million people in Europe and North America are still exposed to ...
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Sanitation: (Still) A Global Health Crisis
Global Health Crisis When sanitation is practiced successfully, it can promote health and prevent disease. But its effectiveness depends on many factors -- education, behavioral changes, access to clean ... illnesses, including diarrhoeal diseases, which are responsible for killing the majority of children who die before reaching the age of five. In addition to promulgating disease and degrading ...
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Sustainable Sanitation: A Global Health Challenge
In addition to promulgating disease and degrading ... anaerobically (without oxygen). The objectives of treatment are to contain this material, eliminate disease-causing organisms (pathogens), and -- in ecological systems like composting toilets -- return the ...
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AGENDA 21 HUMAN HEALTH
Such diseases include cholera, diarrhoeal diseases, leishmaniasis, malaria and schistosomiasis. In all such instances, the environmental measures, either ... care or undertaken outside the health sector, form an indispensable component of overall disease control strategies, together with health and hygiene education, and in some cases, are ...
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Red Cross Red Crescent - News
Kyaw Kyaw are reporting increasing illness. Diarrhoeal disease, malaria, dengue, respiratory infections and even haemorrhagic fever continue to concern the ... s stricken area is the combination of disaster, disease and malnutrition, one Oraby knows well from other catastrophes. Like communicable disease, malnutrition was present before the cyclone. ...
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