Water- and Excreta-Related Diseases: Unitary Environmental Classification
| Autor: | D. D. Mara, Richard G A Feachem |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Environmental Engineering business.industry Public health Environmental classification Disease Environmental protection Environmental health Epidemiology Environmental Chemistry Medicine Water pollution business Feces General Environmental Science Civil and Structural Engineering |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Environmental Engineering. 125:334-339 |
| ISSN: | 1943-7870 0733-9372 |
| DOI: | 10.1061/(asce)0733-9372(1999)125:4(334) |
| Popis: | A unitary environmental classification of water- and excreta-related communicable diseases is presented, which comprises seven categories: Feco-oral waterborne and water-washed diseases; non-feco-oral water-washed (skin and eye) diseases; geohelminthiases; taeniases; water-based diseases (bacterial and fungal, as well as helminthic); insect-vector diseases; and rodent-vector diseases. The global burden of some of these diseases in 1990 is reviewed. Water- and excreta-related diseases were responsible for 2,700,000 deaths in that year (5.3% of all deaths) and for the loss of 93,200,000 disability-adjusted life years (6.8% of all DALYs). Almost all these deaths and loss of DALYs occurred in developing countries (99.9 and 99.8%, respectively). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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