WSH—Water, Sanitation and Health Electronic Library Edition 5

A Compendium of WHO Information on Water, Sanitation and Health

CD-ROM
June 2010
9789240560260
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  • Publisher
    World Health Organization
  • Published
    4th June 2010
  • ISBN 9789240560260
  • Language English
$468.00

The Water, Sanitation and Health Electronic Library, 5th edition, includes more than 220 documents of new and current publications. The documents provide information on water supply and sanitation, recreational/bathing waters, achieving the Millennium Development Goals on water, sanitation and hygiene, drinking-water quality, water resources management and health-care waste. Included are full text books and guidelines, facts sheets, facts and figures, posters, advocacy materials and other information products.

The CD ROM is intended to assist all those interested in water, sanitation and health by providing them with comprehensive up-to-date information. Users include public health specialists, scientists, policy makers, practitioners, academics, non-governmental organizations in developing and developed countries. By assisting these and other user groups the electronic library is intended to contribute towards the International Decade for Action, Water for Life: 2005-2015.

The CD ROM is periodically supplemented and updated.

World Health Organization

World Health Organization is a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, charged to act as the world's directing and coordinating authority on questions of human health. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries, and monitoring and assessing health trends.