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Good practice and tools for disease reduction

"Stimulating the development and testing of new technologies, tools and guidelines for disease control, risk reduction, health-care management, and service delivery."...
is one of the six core functions listed in the General Programme of Work 2002-2005 of WHO.

Hygiene and PHAST

- PHAST step-by-step guide: a participatory approach for the control of diarrhoeal diseases
- Participatory hygiene and Sanitation Transformation: a new approach to working with communities

Sanitation-related tools

- Guide to the development of on-site sanitation
- Sanitation promotion
- Preventing trachoma: a guide for environmental sanitation and improved hygiene

Health impact assessment of water resources

- Health impact assessment harmonization, mainstreaming and capacity building
- Intersectoral decision-making skills in support of health impact assessment of development projects
- Health opportunities in development

Good practice in drinking-water quality

- Toxic cyanobacteria in water: their public health consequences

Operation and maintenance of drinking-water supply and sanitation

- Operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation systems: a training package
- Tools for assessing the O & M status of water supply and sanitation in developing countries
- Upgrading water treatment plants
- Leakage management and control: a best practice training manual

Water resources quality

- Water quality assessments
- Water quality monitoring
- Water pollution control
- Toxic cyanobacteria in water: a guide to the public health consequences
- Monitoring bathing waters

Healthy settings

- Healthy villages: A guide for communities and community health

Emergencies

- Environmental health in emergencies and disasters: a practical guide