Approaches to Increase Arsenic Awareness in Bangladesh
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Approaches to increase arsenic awareness in Bangladesh: an evaluation of an arsenic education program.
The objective of this study was to design and evaluate a household-level arsenic education and well water arsenic testing intervention to increase arsenic awareness in Bangladesh. The authors randomly selected 1,000 study respondents located in 20 villages in Singair, Bangladesh. The main outcome was the change in knowledge of arsenic from baseline to follow-up 4 to 6 months after the household...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Education & Behavior
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1090-1981,1552-6127
DOI: 10.1177/1090198112454735