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WEDC Technical Brief No. 25: Eye and skin diseases

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posted on 2025-02-05, 11:36 authored by Dr Margaret Ince

One of the transmission mechanisms for water related diseases is water-washing. It is specific to those diseases dependent on water quantity but excludes those that are faecal-orally transmitted. (Technical Briefs 17 and 19, respectively). As the majority of water-washed diseases affect the skin and eyes, this Technical Brief considers the effects of both hygiene practices and the availability of water on skin and eye disease. Two notable diseases not in this group, Onchocerciasis (river blindness) and Xerophthalmia (nutritional blindness), are included because of their impact on numbers of blind people.

In tropical and subtropical developing countries skin and eye diseases are common causes for visiting a health clinic. Reduced incidence would, therefore, be beneficial to patients and staff.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Research Unit

  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

Published in

The Worth of Water. Technical Briefs on Health, Water and Sanitation

Pages

101 - 104

Publisher

Practical Action Publishing

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© Practical Action Publishing

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All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Practical Action Publishing.

ISBN

9781853390692

eISSN

9781780443935

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

John Pickford

Illustrator(s)

Rod Shaw

Depositor

Mr Matthieu Leger, impersonating DR Margaret Ince. Deposit date: 4 February 2025

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