Background: Surface water contaminated with human waste may transmit
urogenital schistosomiasis (UGS). Water-related activities that allow skin exposure
place people at risk, but public health practitioners know little about why some
communities with access to improved water infrastructure have substantial surface
water contact with infec... read moretious water bodies. Community-based mixed-methods research
can provide critical information about water use and water infrastructure
improvements.
Keywords: Water infrastructure, River, Mixed-methods, Borehole, Improved
water source, Surface water, Schistosoma haematobium, Urogenital
schistosomiasis.
Kosinski, Karen, Alexandra V. Kulinkina, Akua Frimpomaa Abrah,
Michael N. Adjei, Kara Marie Breen, Hafsa Myedah Chaudhry, Paul E. Nevin, Suzanne H.
Warner, and Shalini Ahuja Tendulkar. "A mixed-methods approach to understanding water
use and water infrastructure in a schistosomiasis-endemic community: case study of
Asamama, Ghana." BMC Public Health 16, no. 1 (12, 2016):
1-10.