Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health

By Jamie Bartram, S. Cairncross. PLoS Medicine, 2010

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As the first article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation, Jamie Bartram and Sandy Cairncross argue that the massive burden of ill health associated with poor hygiene, sanitation, and water supply demands more attention from health professionals and policymakers.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nutrition and Dietetics

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Citations in the corpus

• Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2014, background): “Long-term STH control and eventual elimination require improvements to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) access and practices [7].”
• Quantitative maps of groundwater resources in Africa (2012, background): “Consequently, increasing access to improved water supplies is an international priority (Bartram and Cairncross 2010).”