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1 online resource (499 pages). |
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| Series |
Water in South Asia
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Water in South Asia.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Note; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; PART I: Backdrop; 1 -- Interlacing Water and Health in South Asia: The Problematique; 2 -- Good Evidences, Bad Linkages: A Review of Water and Health in South Asia; 3 -- Water, Health and Poverty in South Asia: Examining the Interface in India; PART II: Water Supply, Sanitation and Human Health; 4 -- Madhya Pradesh's Complex Challenges: Undernutrition and Infectious Diseases. |
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5 -- Inequalities in Access to Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation and Childhood Undernutrition in India6 -- Access to Safe Water and Health: Mortality, Morbidity and Malnutrition in Nepal; 7 -- Disease Burden Linked to Incomplete Water and Sanitation Coverage in Orissa, India; PART III: Intensification of Agriculture, Water and Health; 8 -- Arsenic Contamination, Toxicity and Health Effects: Cases from India and Bangladesh; 9 -- Arsenic Pollution and Reproductive Health: A Case Study of Murshidabad District in West Bengal. |
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10 -- Water Quality and Human Health in Mewat: Challenges and Innovative SolutionsPART IV: Rapid Industrialisation, Water and Health; 11 -- Wastewater Use in Vegetable Production and Its Health Impacts: A Case of Faisalabad, Pakistan; 12 -- Role of Farmers in Protecting Groundwater in Lower Bhavani River Basin of Tamil Nadu, India; 13 -- Industrial Water Pollution and Health Implications: Emerging Issues from Tiruppur, Textile Town of South India; 14 -- Impact of Mining on Water and Human Health: A Case Study of Baitarani River Ecosystem in Orissa. |
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PART V: Increasing Urbanisation and Water and Health15 -- Wastewater in Sri Lanka: Implications on Human Health; 16 -- Neglected Frontiers: Peri-urban Water Use and Human Health in the National Capital Region, India; 17 -- Results of Unplanned Programmes: Drinking Water and Sanitation System in Bhaktapur, Nepal; PART VI: Natural Disasters, Water and Health; 18 -- Inter-relation between Water, Health and Livelihood in Disasters; 19 -- Health Disasters: Tsunami-induced Public Health Crisis in India; Glossary; About the Editors and Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
An increasing recognition of the need to understand the complex systems in the health sector has raised the demand for an examination of water and health from a systemic perspective. Analyzing the various discourses on the subject, the volume revolves around this central question: What are the linkages between water and health in South Asia?. The interlacing of water and health exists wherever human health is adversely affected, directly or indirectly, by changes in the quality and quantity of water. These adverse effects are linked with poverty, environment and infrastructure in the overall s. |
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Water-supply -- Health aspects -- South Asia -- Case studies.
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Water-supply -- Health aspects. |
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South Asia. |
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Water-supply. |
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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Electronic books -- Case studies.
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Electronic books -- Case studies.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Chourey, Jayati.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Prakash, Anjal. Interlacing Water and Human Health : Case Studies from South Asia. New Delhi : SAGE India, ©2011 9788132107255 |
| ISBN |
9788132109822 (electronic book) |
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8132109821 (electronic book) |
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