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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... for evidence-based decision making. • There has been an increasing demand for information to support cost-benefit analysis. In relation to microbiological aspects of water quality it is 4 Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards and Health.
... for evidence-based decision making. • There has been an increasing demand for information to support cost-benefit analysis. In relation to microbiological aspects of water quality it is 4 Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards and Health.
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... benefits. Costs of interventions may be high and substantial benefits may accrue not only to health but also to, for example, diverse economic sectors (see Chapter 15). Both health and non-health benefits may be delayed. Care is ...
... benefits. Costs of interventions may be high and substantial benefits may accrue not only to health but also to, for example, diverse economic sectors (see Chapter 15). Both health and non-health benefits may be delayed. Care is ...
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... benefit analysis. It was recognised that this would in turn lead to an iterative process within the guidelines themselves and progressive adjustment to take account of new information. Assuming equivalence between risk of infection and ...
... benefit analysis. It was recognised that this would in turn lead to an iterative process within the guidelines themselves and progressive adjustment to take account of new information. Assuming equivalence between risk of infection and ...
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... benefit is likely to be achieved by intervening in the other routes of exposure. Such simple analysis in practice is conditioned by factors such as the availability of interventions in the various exposure routes and their cost ...
... benefit is likely to be achieved by intervening in the other routes of exposure. Such simple analysis in practice is conditioned by factors such as the availability of interventions in the various exposure routes and their cost ...
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... benefits. Recreational water use leads to significant benefits to the individual and to society as a whole (rest, recreation, hygiene) and guidelines and standards should be established that are protective of public health without ...
... benefits. Recreational water use leads to significant benefits to the individual and to society as a whole (rest, recreation, hygiene) and guidelines and standards should be established that are protective of public health without ...
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Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards & Health Lorna Fewtrell,Jamie Bartram No preview available - 2001 |
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