Environmental Health Update – July 31, 2003

This Update contains links to full-text environmental health articles, abstracts of recent studies and links to full-text project and research reports. Click on the underlined text to link to the article or report.

Full-Text Articles

WHO Bulletin – Volume 81, Number 7, July 2003

• Editorial: Science and the health of the poor – Jong-Wook Lee [pdf 37.9Kb0]
•  Bayesian predictive model of onchocherciasis in the Amazonian focus – Helene Carabin et al. [pdf 970Kb]
• Management of severely ill children at first-level health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa – Eric A.F. Simoes et al. [pdf 743Kb]
• Poverty, equity, human rights and health – Paula Braveman & Sofia Gruskin
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Emerging Infectious Diseases – August 2003

• Nonmalarial Infant Deaths and DDT Use for Malaria Control, A. Chen and W.J. Rogan
• Upcoming Conferences on Infectious Diseases

Abstracts of Recent Studies

• Cholera, diarrhea, and oral rehydration therapy: triumph and indictment. Guerrant RL, Carneiro-Filho BA, Dillingham RA.  Clin Infect Dis. 2003 Aug 1;37(3):398-405.
• Antibodies in mother’s milk protect children against giardiasis.
  Tellez A, Winiecka-Krusnell J, Paniagua M, Linder E. Scand J Infect Dis. 2003;35(5):322-5.
• Domestic hygiene behaviour of mothers with children aged 0-5 years old in Tayabo village, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines. Sakisaka K, Wakai S, Wongkhomthong SA.
  Asia Pac J Public Health. 2002;14(2):91-8..
• Association between parasitic intestinal infections and acute or chronic diarrhoea in HIV-infected patients in Caracas, Venezuela. Arenas-Pinto A, Certad G, Ferrara G, Castro J, Bello MA, Nunez LT. Int J STD AIDS. 2003 Jul;14(7):487-92.

 Project/Research Reports

• EHP – Reaching an Expanded Audience with Environmental Health Information, Global HealthLink, June 2003.
• EHP – When the Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Integrated Indicators for Population-Environment Programs, PECS News, Spring 2003.
• IIED – WSSD: Was it worthwhile? A new IIED paper reviewing the achievements and challenges of the Johannesburg Summit is now available online.
• Population Reference Bureau – 2003 World Population Data Sheet.
• External evaluation of the USAID malaria vaccine develoment project, 2003.
• USAID – Measuring the burden of disease and economic consequences of tuberculosis in the Philippines, 2003.
• WEDC – Willingness-to-pay Surveys A streamlined approach. Guidance notes for small town water services
• WSP – Meeting The Financing Challenge For Water Supply And Sanitation. Incentives To Promote Reforms, Leverage Resources, and Improve Targeting, Meera Mehta, 2003.
• WSP – Water Tariffs and Subsidies in South Asia Paper 1, Understanding the Basics
• WSP – Water Tariffs and Subsidies in South Asia Paper 2, A Scorecard for India
• WSP – Independent Water Entrepreneurs in Latin America. The other private sector in water services, by Tova María Solo.
• WSP – Building Gender Equity. Methodologies and instruments for its inclusion in water and sanitation projects. Spanish.
• WSP – Participatory Methodologies for Hygiene Education. The adaptation of PHAST to Andean rural communities in Peru. Spanish.

Websites

• FAO – Database of national water legislation