Community water service and incidence of respiratory, skin, and gastrointestinal infections in rural Alaska, 2013-2015.

CONCLUSIONS: Higher levels of water service coverage were associated with lower incidence rates of visits for several infectious disease categories. These associations were more pronounced for communities with piped water service compared to vehicle-hauled water service. PMID: 32058938 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32058938?dopt=Abstract

Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - February 10, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Mosites E, Lefferts B, Seeman S, January G, Dobson J, Fuente D, Bruce M, Thomas T, Hennessy T Tags: Int J Hyg Environ Health Source Type: research