Faculty Articles
Title
Final Report of the Controlled Cohort Investigations into the Health Effects of Bathing in Sewage Contaminated Coastal Waters
Publication Title
British Department of Environment
Publication Date / Copyright Date
1-1993
Publisher
National Rivers Authority
Abstract
This report explains a healthy volunteer experiment designed to quantify the possible health effects of bathing in sewage polluted sea waters. The research protocol was similar to a controlled clinical trial, volunteers were randomised into bather and non bather groups and subjected to interviews and medical examinations before and after exposure in UK sea waters passing the EC Bathing Water Directive. Water quality was measured in great spatial and temporal detail allowing precise allocation of water quality exposure indices to individual bathers. This is the first time a healthy volunteer experiment has been accomplished in the examination of health effects of environmental pollution.
Disciplines
Medical Specialties | Medicine and Health Sciences | Osteopathic Medicine and Osteopathy
Keywords
Bathing Water Directive, Environmental management, Human diseases, Water quality, Coastal waters
NSUWorks Citation
Jones, F; Kay, D; D, M; Fleisher, Jay M.; Salmon, R; and F, A, "Final Report of the Controlled Cohort Investigations into the Health Effects of Bathing in Sewage Contaminated Coastal Waters" (1993). Faculty Articles. 1580.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_com_faculty_articles/1580
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