Drinking Water and Infectious Disease
Published on 31. July 2002
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-84339-027-5 (ISBN)
Description
There still exists considerable uncertainty in many countries about the contribution of drinking water to sporadic cases for disease. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in cooperation with the WHO, led the Workshop on Moleculare Technologies for Safe Drinking Water in 1998 to address the role of water in the transmission of infectious disease. Unlike books that give a broad view on the public health issues regarding water and health, this book focuses on the tools available to identify the links between drinking water and infectious disease and how they might be used. It gathers state-of-the-art information from an international team of experts, including most of the world's leading authorities on waterborne disease epidemiology and investigation, to provide an overview of current best practices and direction for assessing the safety of drinking water and responding to adverse events. Organized into three sections, this user-friendly text is the only book to put forward clear guidance on the surveillance for and investigation of waterborne infectious disease at the local, national, and international levels. Based on an OECD international meeting, each section is introduced by the relevant session chairs, and includes research approaches using models and innovative field experiences to provide a wide selection of ideas for others to field test or modify. Researchers will be able to use this information not only to study the epidemiology of infectious diseases, but also to investigate and prevent waterborne diseases. Drinking Water and Infectious Disease is a landmark text in both the field of waterborne disease and more generally in infectious disease epidemiology.
Reviews / Votes
Drinking Water and Infectious Disease Establishing the Links Editors: PR Hunter, M Waite, E Ronchi "...this is the first text to focus specifically on the methods used to identify the relationship between drinking water quality and infectious disease, and how such methods have been used in practice. The authors include many internationally recognised experts with firsthand experience in disease surveillance, outbreak investigation and epidemiological studies of waterborne disease" Published in Health Stream, Issue 27, September 2002More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84339-027-5 (9781843390275)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Section 1: Surveillance of Waterborne Disease, Pierre Payment 1. Principles and Components of Surveillance Systems, Paul R. Hunter 2. Local Surveillance Systems, Catherine Quigley, James J. Gibson, and Paul R. Hunter 3. National Surveillance Systems, Ros Stanwell-Smith, Yvonne Andersson, and Deborah A. Levy 4. International Surveillance, Paul R. Hunter Section 2: Investigation of Outbreaks of Waterborne Disease, Will Roberston and Al Dufour 5. A Systems Approach to the Investigation and Control of Waterborne Outbreaks, Catherine Quigley and Paul R. Hunter 6. Early Detection of Water Related Disease Outbreaks, Jim Black and Christopher K. Fairley 7. Microbiology and the Investigation of Waterborne Outbreaks: Typing of Norwalk-Like Virus, Carl-Henrick von Bonsdorff and Leena Maunula 8. Microbiology and the Investigation of Waterborne Outbreaks: The Use of Cryptosporidium Typing in the Investigation of Waterborne Disease, Gordon Nichols and Jim McLauchlin 9. Engineering Considerations in the Investigation of Waterborne Outbreaks, Kim R. Fox 10. Causes of Waterborne Outbreaks Reported in the United States, 1991-98, Gunther F. Craun, Rebecca L. Calderon, and Nena Nwachuku 11. Cryptosporidium in England and Wales, W. Mike Waite and Peter Jiggins Section 3: Investigation of Sporadic Waterborne Disease, Jamie Bartram 12. Using Existing Surveillance-Based Data, Gordon Nichols 13. Geographical Information Systems, Friederike Dangendorf, Susanne Herbst, Martin Exner, and Thomas Kistemann 14. Time Series Analyses, Pascal Beaudeau 15. Seroepidemiology, Floyd J. Frost, Tim Muller, Twila Kunde, Gunther Craun, and Rebecca Calderon 16. Case-Control Studies, Brent Robertson, Christopher K. Fairley, Jim Black, and Martha Sinclair 17. Prospective Epidemiological Studies, Denis Zmirou and Leila Gofti-Laroche 18. Intervention Studies, Pierre Payment and Paul R. Hunter 19. Prospective Studies of Endemic Waterborne Disease in Developing Countries, Christine L. Moe Appendix: Developing an Integrated System of Health and Technical Data, Alan Thompson