The use of water harvesting systems in arid lands is seen to offer a potential for making lands productive that are now largely unusable due to lack... Read more...
Includes the consolidated text of the "Fourth ACP-EC Convention of Lome" Read more...
The participation of women in water supply programmes and projects was highlighted by the United Nations with the proclamation of the Water Decade. Read more...
In the rural water supply projects carried out under Italian development aid, social activities have been incorporated to stimulate communication and... Read more...
Data from interview surveys of households or health facilities are used to assess community parameters such as health status and factors related to... Read more...
The incidences of Schistosoma mansoni infection and reinfection were investigated in an endemic area of Brazil, Peri-Peri, State of Minas Gerais,... Read more...
Described is the evolution of the schistosomiasis control programme in Burundi since 1985. A single round of selective population chemotherapy was... Read more...
The relationship between personal and domestic hygiene behaviour and hospitalized childhood diarrhoea was examined in a case-control study of 356... Read more...
The study describes the development of health production functions and their application in the evaluation of the health impacts of investments in... Read more...
Based on studies reported in the literature, this review article demonstrates that weaning foods prepared under unhygienic conditions are frequently... Read more...
About a third of the population in the cities of developing countries live in slums and shanty towns. Read more...
The rapid evaluation method (REM) was developed by WHO in order to assess the performance and quality of health care services, identify operational... Read more...