Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics: Water, Sanitation and Disease Control

ISBN-13: 9781844071913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 366 str.

Sandy Cairncross; Richard Feachem

Opis

This fully updated third edition of this 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 measures that may be used effectively 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.

Spis treści

Part I: Health and Pollution  1. Engineering and Infectious Disease  2. Health and Water Chemistry  3. Water Quality and Standards  Part II: Water Supply  4. Water Supplies in Low and Middle Income Countries  5. Rural Water Supply  6. Urban Water Supply and Water Treatment  Part III: Excreta and Refuse: Treatment, Disposal and Re-use  7. Excreta Disposal in Low and Middle Income Countries  8. Types of Excreta Disposal System  9. Planning a sanitation programme  10. Waste Water Treatment  11. Surface Water Drainage  12. Solid Waste Management  13. Composting  14. Health Aspects of Waste Use  Part IV: Environmental Modifications and Vector-borne diseases  15. Engineering Control of Insect-borne Diseases  16. Dams, Irrigation and Health  17. Schistosomiasis