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Effect of city-wide sanitation programme on reduction in rate of childhood diarrhoea in northeast Brazil: assessment by two cohort studies

BACKGROUND: A city-wide sanitation intervention was started in Salvador, Brazil, in 1997 to improve sewerage coverage from 26% of households to 80%. Our aim was to investigate the epidemiological effect of this city-wide sanitation programme on diarrhoea morbidity in children less than 3 years of ag...

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Autores principales: Barreto, Mauricio L, Genser, Bernd, Strina, Agostino, Teixeira, Maria Gloria, Assis, Ana Marlucia O, Rego, Rita F, Teles, Carlos A, Prado, Matildes S, Matos, Sheila MA, Santos, Darci N, dos Santos, Lenaldo A, Cairncross, Sandy
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lancet Publishing Group 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2212752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17993362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61638-9