May Yacoob
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 664374 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | May Yacoob |
| NOMBRES | May |
| APELLIDO | Yacoob |
| FIRMA | YACOOB M |
| AFILIACIONES | RTI International |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
An untapped resource
The following article promotes active community participation whereby peri-urban neighbourhood residents monitor environmental health conditions. An effective and sustainable community based environmental assessment and management programme relies on such participation. The authors suggest a combination of methodologies to incorporate community members in the definition of their environment, the diagnosis of local health problems, the determinati…
An untapped resource
The following article promotes active community participation whereby peri-urban neighbourhood residents monitor environmental health conditions. An effective and sustainable community based environmental assessment and management programme relies on such participation. The authors suggest a combination of methodologies to incorporate community members in the definition of their environment, the diagnosis of local health problems, the determinati…
Behavior in Water Supply and Sanitation
Health planners often conceptualize improved public health infrastructures, such as the provision of sanitary facilities, as keys to improved public health results. These improvements alone, however, rarely result in the anticipated health improvements. Changes in hygiene behavior, that is, in the way in which people utilize their existing resources along with improved infrastructure. are critical to achieving sustained improvements in public hea…
Community self-financing of water supply and sanitation
As a result of the debt crisis in developing nations and shrinking donor resources, the water supply and sanitation sector is increasingly orientated towards recovering some portion of the cost of system development from beneficiary communities. In some cases, full cost recovery, including capital costs, is the goal. Sustainable projects continue to be perceived as the major indicator of successful sector development. Community acceptance of resp…
Primary health care
Since primary health care became ‘selective’ the need for clean water sources has largely been neglected. This paper highlights both the economic and philosophical necessity to look again at the approach to primary health care. An observational study from Nigeria is used to exemplify a community where a clean water source was the most urgent need, yet was ignored. Guinea worm infestation therefore caused serious disability in the community and re…
Guinea worm
Rural and Urban Islam in West Africa
Communicating fundamentals of water and sanitation in Moslem communities
Communicating fundamentals of water and sanitation in Moslem communities
Rural and Urban Islam in West Africa
Primary health care
Since primary health care became ‘selective’ the need for clean water sources has largely been neglected. This paper highlights both the economic and philosophical necessity to look again at the approach to primary health care. An observational study from Nigeria is used to exemplify a community where a clean water source was the most urgent need, yet was ignored. Guinea worm infestation therefore caused serious disability in the community and re…
Guinea worm
Community self-financing of water supply and sanitation
As a result of the debt crisis in developing nations and shrinking donor resources, the water supply and sanitation sector is increasingly orientated towards recovering some portion of the cost of system development from beneficiary communities. In some cases, full cost recovery, including capital costs, is the goal. Sustainable projects continue to be perceived as the major indicator of successful sector development. Community acceptance of resp…
Behavior in Water Supply and Sanitation
Health planners often conceptualize improved public health infrastructures, such as the provision of sanitary facilities, as keys to improved public health results. These improvements alone, however, rarely result in the anticipated health improvements. Changes in hygiene behavior, that is, in the way in which people utilize their existing resources along with improved infrastructure. are critical to achieving sustained improvements in public hea…
An untapped resource
The following article promotes active community participation whereby peri-urban neighbourhood residents monitor environmental health conditions. An effective and sustainable community based environmental assessment and management programme relies on such participation. The authors suggest a combination of methodologies to incorporate community members in the definition of their environment, the diagnosis of local health problems, the determinati…
An untapped resource
The following article promotes active community participation whereby peri-urban neighbourhood residents monitor environmental health conditions. An effective and sustainable community based environmental assessment and management programme relies on such participation. The authors suggest a combination of methodologies to incorporate community members in the definition of their environment, the diagnosis of local health problems, the determinati…
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