A re-assessment of the safety of silver in household water treatment: rapid systematic review of mammalian in vivo genotoxicity studies

Autor: Lorna Fewtrell, Batsirai Majuru, Paul R. Hunter

Publikováno v: Environmental Health, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017)

Abstract Background Despite poor evidence of their effectiveness, colloidal silver and silver nanoparticles are increasingly being promoted for treating potentially contaminated drinking water in low income countries. Recently, however, concerns have

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Systematic review: Hygiene and health: systematic review of handwashing practices worldwide and update of health effects

Autor: Jennyfer Wolf, Meredith E. Stocks, Julian P T Higgins, Annette Prüss-Ustün, Lorna Fewtrell, Paul R. Hunter, Valerie Curtis, Matthew C. Freeman, Aurelie Jeandron, Sophie Bonjour, Oliver Cumming

Publikováno v: Tropical Medicine & International Health. 19:906-916

objective To estimate the global prevalence of handwashing with soap and derive a pooled estimate of the effect of hygiene on diarrhoeal diseases, based on a systematic search of the literature. methods Studies with data on observed rates of handwash

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https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.12339

Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low‐ and middle‐income settings: a retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries

Autor: Maria Neira, Matthew C. Freeman, Alan D. Dangour, Daniel Mäusezahl, Bruce Gordon, Annette Prüss-Ustün, Oliver Cumming, Sophie Bonjour, Lorna Fewtrell, Paul R. Hunter, Jamie Bartram, John M. Colford, Jennyfer Wolf, Meredith E. Stocks, Kate Medlicott, Valerie Curtis, Colin Mathers, Sandy Cairncross, Thomas Clasen, Richard B. Johnston

Publikováno v: Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH, vol 19, iss 8
Tropical Medicine & International Health
Prüss-Ustün, A; Bartram, J; Clasen, T; Colford, JM; Cumming, O; Curtis, V; et al.(2014). Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low-and middle-income settings: A retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 19(8), 894-905. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12329. UC Berkeley: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/98r189p0

Objective: To estimate the burden of diarrhoeal diseases from exposure to inadequate water, sanitation and hand hygiene in low- and middle-income settings and provide an overview of the impact on other diseases. Methods: For estimating the impact of

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https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.12329

Assessment of Infection Risks Due to Urban Flooding

Autor: David Kay, Lorna Fewtrell, Keren Marie S. Smith

Publikováno v: Flood Risk Science and Management

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https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444324846.ch21

An attempt to quantify the health impacts of flooding in the UK using an urban case study

Autor: Lorna Fewtrell, David Kay

Publikováno v: Public Health. 122:446-451

Summary Objectives To quantify, so far as possible, the health effects of flooding in the UK to allow comparison between different flooding events. Methods The health effects resulting from flooding events were determined through an extensive literat

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2007.09.010