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Book SynopsisThe revised and updated second edition of Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Changing Environment offers an interdisciplinary guide to the conditions responsible for water and sanitation related diseases. The authors discuss the pathogens, vectors, and their biology, morbidity and mortality that result from a lack of safe water and sanitation. The text also explores the distribution of these diseases and the conditions that must be met to reduce or eradicate them.
The text includes contributions from authorities from the fields of climate change, epidemiology, environmental health, environmental engineering, global health, medicine, medical anthropology, nutrition, population, and public health. Covers the causes of individual diseases with basic information about the diseases and data on the distribution, prevalence, and incidence as well as interconnected factors such as environmental factors. The authors cover access to and maintenance of clean water,
Table of Contents
FOREWORD ix
Paul Farmer
PREFACE xi
Janine M. H. Selendy
CONTRIBUTORS xiii
INTRODUCTION xv
Janine M. H. Selendy and Jens Aagaard-Hansen
SECTION I WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE: MEETING THE NEED 1
1 Toward Universal Access to Basic and Safely Managed Drinking Water: Remaining Challenges and New Opportunities in the Era of Sustainable Development Goals 3
Mitsuaki Hirai and Jay Graham
2 The Human Right to Sanitation 17
Anoop Jain and Jay Graham
3 Coping with Water Needs: The Demographic Future 25
Guigui Yao and Robert Wyman
4 Water, Food, and the Environment 39
Robert Wyman and Guigui Yao
5 Water and Armed Conflict 53
Barry S. Levy
6 Additional Measures to Prevent, Ameliorate, and Reduce Water Pollution and Related Water Diseases: Global Water Governance 59
Nikhil Chandavarkar
SECTION II WATER AND SANITATION‐RELATED DISEASES 63
7 Infectious Diarrhea 65
Sean Fitzwater, Anita Shet, Mathuram Santosham, and Margaret Kosek
8 Soil‐Transmitted Helminths: Ascaris, Trichuris, and Hookworm Infections 95
Alexander T. Yu and Brian G. Blackburn
9 Food Systems and Nutrition in the Context of Climate Change 111
José Graziano da Silva
10 Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon: New Understanding and Directions for Intervention 127
Marcia C. Castro and Burton H. Singer
11 Schistosomiasis 147
Pascal Magnussen, Birgitte Jyding Vennervald, and Jens Aagaard‐Hansen
12 Trachoma 159
Emma M. Harding‐Esch, Joseph A. Cook, David C. Mabey, and Anthony W. Solomon
SECTION III ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURALLY OCCURRING POLLUTANTS 171
13 Impacts of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment 173
M. Danielle McDonald
14 Other Water Pollutants: Antimicrobial Resistance 177
Rochelle Rainey
15 Global Substitution of Mercury‐Based Medical Devices in the Health Sector 189
Anitha Nimmagadda, Ivorie Stanley, Joshua Karliner, and Peter Orris
SECTION IV WATER TREATMENT AND SAFE STORAGE 197
16 Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Low‐Income Countries 199
Thomas F. Clasen
SECTION V CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH 213
17 Changing Geographic Distribution of Disease Vectors 215
Mary E. Wilson
18 Reassessing Multiple‐Intervention Malaria Control Programs of the Past: Lessons for the Design of Contemporary Interventions 229
Burton H. Singer and Marcia C. Castro
19 Ecosystem Health as the Basis for Human Health 245
Tom Barker and Jane Fisher
20 Addressing the Nexus of Water, Sanitation, Health, and Climate Change Through Multistakeholder Partnerships 271
Nikhil Chandavarkar
SECTION VI SUCCESS STORIES 275
21 Extending the Right to Health Care and Improving Child Survival in Mexico 277
Julio Frenk and Octavio Gomez‐Dantés
22 Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease): Case Study of the Effort to Eradicate Guinea Worm 283
Donald R. Hopkins and Ernesto Ruiz‐Tiben
23 Sanitation Case Studies 291
Anoop Jain and Jay Graham
24 Catalyzing Rural Sanitation at Scale: Lessons Learned from the Global Sanitation Fund 297
Patrick England and Carolien Van der Voorden
AFTERWORD 311
INDEX 313
