poor sanitation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoorandsanitation
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poor
adjective
uk/pɔːr/us/pʊr/
having little money and/or ...
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sanitation
noun[U]
uk/ˌsæn.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌsæn.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
the systems for taking dirty water and other waste products away from buildings in order to protect ...
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(Definition ofpoorandsanitationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Overcrowding, together withpoorsanitation, illiteracy and a complete lack of veterinary attention places this community at a high risk of acquiring zoonotic infections.
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This infection is one of fish-borne parasitic infections linked with poverty,poorsanitation, rampant environmental pollution and population growth.
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However, in the present case study, a greater frequency of infection occurred in adults, probably due topoorsanitationand hygiene.
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In effect, full breast-feeding can mitigate, to a large extent, the risk posed to households bypoorsanitationand untreated water facilities.
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Drinking water scarcity andpoorsanitationwere thought to be responsible for these diarrhoeal outbreaks.
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Outbreaks have occurred in elderly people at home, often associated withpoorsanitationor contaminated food.
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All these variables are related to poor socioeconomic conditions which include low purchasing power,poorsanitation, low availability of health services, malnutrition, infection and the final outcome of child mortality.
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Conversely, in developing countries, prolonged breastfeeding is associated with factors that are also related to higher infant mortality, principallypoorsanitation, poverty and food shortage, and lower maternal education.
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Crowding,poorsanitation, and marginal hygiene would have rendered the cities extremely unhealthy.
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This inadequate nutrition, combined with the inhospitable environmental conditions withpoorsanitation and personal hygiene, and lack of safe drinking water, have increased morbidity and mortality.
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Poorsanitationand contaminated water supplies usually produce infection in early childhood, which results in mild illness.
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People are still dying in their hundreds of thousands because of infected water,poorsanitationand lack of medicines.
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I ask them to think that in the last 50 years almost 400 million worldwide have died from hunger andpoorsanitation.
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Above all, he talked about the horrors of overcrowding andpoorsanitationin our prisons.
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The principal one is the establishment beyond doubt of the relationship between ill health, dirty water andpoorsanitation.
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We will continue to tacklepoorsanitationbecause it is obviously a risk in terms of cholera spreading and affecting communities.
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