Sanitation and Health
Open Access
- 16 November 2010
- journal article
- policy forum
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 7 (11), e1000363
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000363
Abstract
As one article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation, David Trouba and colleagues discuss the importance of improved sanitation to health and the role that the health sector can play in its advocacy.Keywords
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