He added that "children under the age of 5 are most susceptible to diarrheal diseases as a result of poor hygienic conditions and unsafe use of water, with limited availability of safe drinking water," noting that they "need most urgent humanitarian needs in order to prevent the spread and ...
Mapping the global, regional, and national burden of diarrheal diseases attributable to unsafe waterdoi:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1302748Ling ChenJinghua JiaoShunming LiuLei LiuPengliang LiuFrontiers in Public Health
Diarrheal diseases primarily result from oral contact with water, food, or other vehicles contaminated with pathogenic agents originating from human or animal feces. Most (∼88%) of diarrhea-associated deaths are attributable to unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and insufficient hygiene (Bl...
More than one billion people around the world do not have clean drinking water.Their water supplies are unsafe because of natural or man-made pollution,such as industrial chemicals or human and animal wastes.Also water-related diseases(与水有关的病菌)kill millions of people each year,mostly chil...
Preventive strategies for viral hepatitis-related liver disease include increasing access to clean drinking water and sanitation. HBV vaccination programmes for neonates have been implemented by all countries, although birth-dose coverage is extremely suboptimal in some. Availability of screening tests for ...
Cholera Epidemic Associated with Consumption of Unsafe Drinking Water and Street-Vended Water—Eastern Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2012. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014;90(3):518–23. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Fleiss JL, Levin B, Paik MC. Statistical methods for rates and proportions...
As most of these diseases are associated with environmental and behavioral factors, the following areas should be addressed: poor living conditions, unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and excreta disposal, poor drainage, inadequate solid waste removal, poor housing, indoor air pollution and ...
Childhood acute malnutrition is linked with the number of children in the household, unprotected drinking water sources, latrine availability, hand washing practice before food preparation and child feeding, childhood diarrheal disease, and number of vaccinations [160]. In fact, repeated diarrhea attacks...
Water-borne diarrheal diseases cause 1.8 million deaths every year, most of them in children in developing countries with unsafe water supplies. In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued Combating Waterborne Disease at the Household Level (http://www.who.int/household_water/advocacy/...
2.7. Exposure through Drinking-Water Sources The average number of days per year when water was consumed from a source was 300 days; the remaining days were vacations and/or public holidays. The consumed volumes was 1 liter per day per child, and they were estimated as done in previous st...