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This book would be the first of its kind on various issues related to water and health supported with case studies
The curative, preventive, and adaptive aspects of the public-health problem have carefully been delved into
Discusses the effect of pollution and actions being taken to redress the situation
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Center of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, India
Prati Pal Singh
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The National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India
Vinod Sharma
About the editors
Professor Prati Pal Singh, Ph. D., a renowned educationalist, microbiologist, biotechnologist and neuroimmunopharmacologist, has made important contributions to the treatment of malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis and amoebiasis; he conceptualized/reported opiates as a new class of drugs. He has over 250 publications including in Nature Medicine, books and international patents, and has supervised over 37 Ph. D./M. S. students. Prof. Singh is on Editorial Board of Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, USA and has been the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Parasitic Diseases. Prof. Singh has been elected F. N. A. Sc., and F. A. M. I., and awarded The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Award and Tulasbai Somani Award. Prof. Singh is internationally recognized, has been a co-investigator in an Indo-EU project on tuberculosis, and has traveled widely abroad for lectures/meetings. He has been Member/Chairman of committees of ICMR and other organizations.
Professor V. P. Sharma, D. Phil., D. Sc, is the Founder Director of the National Institute of Malaria Research, India. He is Fellow of three science and medical academies of India and the third world academy of sciences. He has 40 years of research experience in vector biology and malaria and has published 400 scientific papers, books, video programmes etc. He has held the esteemed office of the President, The National Academy of Sciences, India. He has served International Organizations and currently he is advisor to WHO on malaria. He is the recipient of various prestigious awards of which few are: Padma Shree, WHO Darling Foundation prize, ICMR’s BR Ambedkar and MOT Iyanger, Ranbaxy, FICCI, Green Scientist, OP Bhasin and Vasvik awards. Dr. Sharma is Meghnad Saha Distinguished Fellow of NASI at CRDT, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water and Health
Editors: Prati Pal Singh, Vinod Sharma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1029-0
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1028-3Published: 16 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2869-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-1029-0Published: 01 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 404
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Microbiology