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dc.contributor.authorAguade, Ricardoes_ES
dc.contributor.authorHilburg, Carlos Jes_ES
dc.date.accessioned2015
dc.date.available2015
dc.date.issueds.d.es_ES
dc.date.issued1960es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/14418
dc.description.abstractAdverse environmental conditions affect the economic, social, and health development of the population. Economically, they keep an important portion of the population from reaching the productive stage of their life and thus deprive them of the opportunity to begin repaying the investment they represent. Socially, such conditions give rise to pessimistic or passive attitudes toward what might otherwise have led them to improve their living standard. And from the viewpoint of health, conditions of this nature are known to be the basic cause of the diseases that most endanger the human potential of a country: the diarrheal and hookworm diseases, to cite but a fewen_US
dc.description.abstractA review of the situation regarding water supplies shows that the first water supply system in the country is now under construction; almost all of the existing supplies are individual, and 50 per cent have facilities within the house, the majority of them on the basis of bored wells. As regards excreta disposal, the beneficial effects of the two campaigns against hookworm disease undertaken in 1924 and 1952 are clearly evident, since 88 per cent of the homes have some kind of disposal system, chiefly latrines. However, such sustems are in need of improvementen_US
dc.description.abstractThis situation has endured until now owing to the inadequate resources assigned for sanitation on the part of both the state and the community, and to the inbalance in the ... (AU)en_US
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesBoletín de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana (OSP);48(2),feb. 1960es_ES
dc.subjectSaneamento Rurales_ES
dc.subjectSaneamento Rurales_ES
dc.subjectAbastecimento de Águapt_BR
dc.subjectParaguaies_ES
dc.titleExperiencias en saneamiento rural en El Paraguayes_ES
dc.title.alternativeRural sanitation experience in Paraguayes_ES
dc.typeJournal articlesen_US
dc.rights.holderPan American Health Organizationen_US


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