Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics
by Sandy Cairncross, Sir Richard Feachem
ISBN-10: 184407191X
ISBN-13: 9781844071913
$64.95
Book Specs
Trade Paper
Routledge
Published on
Nov 5, 2018
Edition
3rd Edition
Dimensions
6.10x0.80x9.10 Inches
Weight
1.41 Pounds
About the Book
This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and useful book for health engineering and disease prevention, describes infectious diseases in tropical and developing countries, and the effective measures that may be used against them.
The infections described include the diarrhoeal diseases, the common gut worms, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis, malaria, Bancroftian filariasis and other mosquito-borne infections. The environmental interventions that receive most attention are domestic water supplies and improved excreta disposal. Appropriate technology for these interventions, and also their impact on infectious diseases, are documented in detail.
This third edition includes new sections on arsenic in groundwater supplies and arsenic removal technologies, and new material in most chapters, including water supplies in developing countries and surface water drainage.