Access to Improved Water Sources and Rural Productivity: Analytical Framework and Cross-country Evidence [PDF]
In this paper we address the issue of access to drinking water in rural areas related to the productivity of the agricultural workforce. Considering an agricultural household model as our basic conceptual framework, we analyze the theoretical aspects of ...
Youssouf Kiendrebeogo
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The current state of knowledge on dracunculiasis: a narrative review of a rare neglected disease. [PDF]
Infez Med, 2023 Simonetti O +9 more
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Progress Toward Eradication of Dracunculiasis - Worldwide, January 2022-June 2023. [PDF]
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 2023 Hopkins DR +4 more
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Health and labor productivity : the economic impact of onchocercal skin disease [PDF]
Teams from two institutions studied the economic impact of health status on productivity and income. They studied whether onchocercal skin disease caused economic damage to the labor force at a coffee plantation in southwest Ethiopia, and how much.
Aehyung Kim, Hailu, Asrat, Tandon, Ajay
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Interventions and Diarrhoea - A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2004 This paper provides a formal systematic review and meta-analysis examining the evidence of the effectiveness of interventions intended to reduce illness through improvements in drinking water, sanitation facilities and hygiene practices.
John M. Colford, Jr., Lorna Fewtrell
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Dracunculiasis over the centuries: the history of a parasite unfamiliar to the West. [PDF]
Infez Med, 2023 Simonetti O +4 more
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How can donors help build global public goods in health ? [PDF]
Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world.
Das Gupta, Monica, Gostin, Lawrence
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Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985-2022. [PDF]
Med Hist, 2023 Roberts JD.
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Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), a parasitic infection: epidemiology, life cycle, prevention, treatment, and challenges - correspondence. [PDF]
Ann Med Surg (Lond), 2023 Islam MR, Mir SA, Akash S, Dhama K.
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