Waste water management in a health area: environmental hygiene in primary care

Within the scope of the programmes to be developed by the primary health care parties, we consider it interesting to investigate the sewage management in our health area because of its impact on the population health and welfare and the main socioeconomic local activities: agriculture and tourism. W...

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Published inRevista de sanidad e higiene publica Vol. 66; no. 5-6; p. 257
Main Authors García Cuadrado, J, Contessotto Spadetto, C, Pereñiguez Barranco, J E, Fuster Quiñonero, D, Paricio Núñez, P
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Spain 01.09.1992
Subjects
Environmental Health
Health Status
Humans
Primary Health Care
Sewage
Spain
Waste Management
Water Microbiology
Spain
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Summary:Within the scope of the programmes to be developed by the primary health care parties, we consider it interesting to investigate the sewage management in our health area because of its impact on the population health and welfare and the main socioeconomic local activities: agriculture and tourism. We carry out an epidemiological descriptive study: we review the most important structural and functional characteristics of the sewage depuration and collection in the municipality of S. Javier (Murcia). The evaluation of the collected data made it obvious that deficiencies exist in the collection system as well as in the sewage processing; both deficiencies were shown in some places of the locality and in particular periods of the year, with a consequent risk of environmental contamination and enteric diseases transmission among population and summer holidaymakers. A positive corrective action on the installations by the organisms responsible for the local sanitation as a response to these conclusions, which we informed due time, constitutes a good stimulant to go on investigating this question of such a great sanitary and general interest, which is almost unknown in medical literature.
ISSN:0034-8899