Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
ENVR 890 Section 003
ENVR 296 Section 003
Spring 2007

Readings

Global Burden of Disease

Keusch, GT, Fontaine, O, Bhargava, A, et. al. 2006. Diarrheal Diseases. In Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. Dean T. Jamison, Joel G. Breman, Anthony R. Measham, et. al., editors. Washington (DC): IBRD/The World Bank and Oxford University Press.

Prüss-Üstün, A., Kay, D., Fewtrell, L. and Bartram, J. 2004. Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene. In Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: The Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors (Volumes 1 and 2). Ezzati, M. et al. (Eds). Geneva: World Health Organization.

Prüss-Üstün, A and C Corvalán. 2006. Analysis of Estimates of the Environmental Attributable Fraction, by Disease. In Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease. WHO.

Prüss-Üstün, A and C Corvalán. 2006. How Much Disease Burden can be Prevented by Environmental Interventions? Epidemiology 18 (1): 167-78.

Risk Assessment

Eisenberg, JNS, Hubbard, A, TJ Wade, et. al. 2006. Inferences Drawn from a Risk Assessment Compared Directly with a Randomized Trail of a Home Drinking Water Intervention. Environmental Health Perspectives 114 (8): 1199-1204.

Eisenberg, JNS, Seto, EYW, Olivieri, AW, and RC Spear. 1996. Quantifying Water Pathogen Risk in an Epidemiological Framework. Risk Analysis 16(4): 549-63.

Soller, JA. 2006. Use of microbial risk assessment to inform the national estimate of acute gastrointestinal illness atrributable to microbes in drinking water. Journal of Water and Health 04. Suppl 2: 165-186.