Water disinfection in the mountains – an update of the recommendation of the Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA)-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Water disinfection in the mountains – an update of the recommendation of the Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA)

Published:2021-07-21 Issue:2 Volume:15 Page:40-55
ISSN:2544-9117
Container-title:Health Promotion & Physical Activity
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Short-container-title:Health Prmot Phys Act

Author:

Albanus C.¹,Timmermann L.¹,Schoeffl Volker²,Hillebrandt David³,Milledge Jim⁴,Küpper Thomas⁵

Affiliation:

1. RWTH Aachen Technical University, Aachen, Germany Department of Occupational & Social Medicine

2. Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA MedCom); Department of Sportorthopedics, Klinikum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany; Department of Trauma Surgery, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany

3. Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA MedCom), Bern,Switzerland

4. Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA MedCom), Bern,Switzerland; University College of London, U.K.

5. Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany; Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Association d’Alpinisme (UIAA), Bern, Switzerland

Abstract

Safe water is still a major problem for travellers in many countries worldwide. In the last decade several new technical developments were made and more data exist about traditional procedures to produce safe water. This update includes such data with special regard to UV-C and held devices and SODIS.

Publisher

University of Applied Sciences in Tarnow, Poland

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://hppajournal.pl/gicid/pdf/01.3001.0015.0507

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