Relationship between water quality and human health: A case study of the Linggi River Basin in Malaysia

Due to the increasingly documented prevalence of diarrhoeal diseases in Malaysia, a number of water-related programmes have been implemented in an attempt to improve health status through the reduction of incidence of waterborne communicable diseases associated with poor public water supplies. The i...

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Ethnic Groups
Health Behavior
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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Hygiene - standards
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Infant, Newborn
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Malaysia - epidemiology
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Medical sector
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Prevention
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Quality
Relationship
Risk Factors
Sanitation - standards
Social ecology model
Social research
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Water purification
water quality
Water supply
Water Supply - standards
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