This article explores conceptual issues in the development and use of environmental health indicators for disease related to water and sanitation in developing countries.
| Title | Environmental health indicators and sanitation-related disease in developing countries : limitations to the use of routine data sources |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1995 |
| Authors | Blumenthal, UJ, Kolsky, PJ |
| Pagination | p. 132-139: 1 fig. |
| Date Published | 1995-01-01 |
| Keywords | constraints, environmental health, faecal-disposal diseases, health aspects, indicators, information gathering, sanitation, water supply |
| Abstract | This article explores conceptual issues in the development and use of environmental health indicators for disease related to water and sanitation in developing countries. First, some inherent limitations are examined in trying to link routinely collected environmental and health data. While indicators obtained from such "data linkage" are not promising for sanitation-related disease, environmental health indicators of a different sort are badly needed to reflect health aspects of sanitation. Problems which environmental health indicators might solve are presented as spur to further thought and research, and suggestions for alternatives to routinely collected data are made, in full recognition of the additional research needed to validate them. (Authors' abstract). |
| Notes | 16 ref. |
| Custom 1 | 302.5, 303 |
