Environmental Health Update – May 23, 2003

Below are links to recently published environmental health articles and reports. Click on underlined text for the complete article or report.

News

• Soap the key to combat ‘liquid killers’
  BBC, UK – May 21, 2003: Cholera has again become a prominent issue in global health affairs because it has flared up in the city of Basra in southern Iraq, in no small part because of …       

Online Journals

Environment and UrbanizationVol 15, No 1, April 2003 – Contact the EHP Library to request pdf versions of articles from the April 2003 issue. Selected articles in this issue include:

• Opportunities for managing solid waste flows in the peri-urban interface of Bamako and Ouagadougou
• Decentralized wastewater management in peri-urban areas in low-income countries
• Empowering communities in the peri-urban areas of Colombo
• Participatory action planning in the peri-urban interface: the twin city experience, Hubli-Dharwad, India
• From everyday hazards to disasters: the accumulation of risk in urban areas

 Abstracts of Recent Studies 

• Environmental threats to children’s health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. William A. Suk, et al. Environmental Health Perspectives, May 13, 2003. (Contact the EHP Library to request a pdf version of this article.)
• A review of rotavirus diarrhea in Pakistan: How much do we know?
  Ali NK, Bhutta ZA.. J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2003 May;13(5):297-301.
• Intestinal parasites in children with diarrhea in Delhi, India. Kaur R, et al.
  Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2002 Dec;33(4):725-9.
• Sanitation and hygiene in urban and rural households in East Africa. Tumwine J, et al. Int J Environ Health Res. 2003;13(2):107-115.
• Global illness and deaths caused by rotavirus disease in children. Parashar UD, et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 May;9(5):565-72.

Online Reports

• EHP – Lessons Learned from Assessment of the Environmental Health Project Website. Activity Report 118. 2003.
• EHP – Urban Environmental Health Strategies, Three Community-based Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene Projects Conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Activity Report 119. 2003.
• IRC – Gender in Community Water Supply, Sanitation and Water Resource Protection: A Guide to Methods and Techniques. 2003.
• RBM – Africa Malaria Report. 2003.
• WHO – What happens when children live in unhealthy environments? Healthy Environments for Children: Fact Sheet. 2003.
• World Bank – Impregnated Nets Cannot Fully Substitute for DDT: Field Effectiveness of Malaria Prevention in Solomon Islands. 2003.
• World Water Council – Adopted Measures to Face Major Challenges in the Egyptian Water Sector. 2003.

Websites

• IWMI – Reuse of Wastewater for Agriculture
• WRI – Earthtrends: Environment Information Portal
• WHO – Healthy Environments for Children Alliance