Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards, and Health : Assessment of Risk and Risk Management for Water-related Infectious DiseaseThe potential to increase consistency in approaches to assessment and management of water-related microbial hazards was tackled by an international group of experts concerned with drinking water irrigation and wastewater use and recreational/bathing water. It included individuals with expertise in public health epidemiology risk assessment risk management standards and regulation communication and economics. Subsequently a series of reviews was progressively developed and refined which addressed the principal issues of concern linking water and health to the establishment and implementation of effective affordable and efficient guidelines and standards. This book is based on these reviews together with the discussions of the harmonised framework and the issues surrounding it. This book will prove invaluable to all those concerned with issues relating to microbial water quality and health including environmental and public health scientists water scientists policy makers and regulators. |
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Page vii
... associated with exposure to health hazards through water and of the effectiveness of approaches to their control. The three principal guidelines are intended to assist countries in establishing effective national or regional strategies ...
... associated with exposure to health hazards through water and of the effectiveness of approaches to their control. The three principal guidelines are intended to assist countries in establishing effective national or regional strategies ...
Page viii
... associated with exposure to both food and water, which will further aid the process of harmonisation. Another important development is the move towards integrated risk management strategies (Chapter 12). Information needs to be made ...
... associated with exposure to both food and water, which will further aid the process of harmonisation. Another important development is the move towards integrated risk management strategies (Chapter 12). Information needs to be made ...
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... associated with water. Box 1.1. World Health Organization guidelines concerned with water quality Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality First published in 1984 in three volumes to replace earlier international standards. The guidelines ...
... associated with water. Box 1.1. World Health Organization guidelines concerned with water quality Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality First published in 1984 in three volumes to replace earlier international standards. The guidelines ...
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... associated with some of the infections concerned, a common exchange unit (such as Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)) was considered essential to account for acute, delayed and chronic effects (including both morbidity and mortality) ...
... associated with some of the infections concerned, a common exchange unit (such as Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)) was considered essential to account for acute, delayed and chronic effects (including both morbidity and mortality) ...
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... associated with (for example) drinking water, then it may reasonably be argued that greater public health benefit is likely to be achieved by intervening in the other routes of exposure. Such simple analysis in practice is conditioned ...
... associated with (for example) drinking water, then it may reasonably be argued that greater public health benefit is likely to be achieved by intervening in the other routes of exposure. Such simple analysis in practice is conditioned ...
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Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards & Health Lorna Fewtrell,Jamie Bartram No preview available - 2001 |
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