Workshop for Information Exchange and Framework Development for Study of Epidemiological, Hydrological, and Social Factors Contributing to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKDu) in Sri Lank

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项目编号	1638851
	Workshop for Information Exchange and Framework Development for Study of Epidemiological, Hydrological, and Social Factors Contributing to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKDu) in Sri Lank
	Tissa Illangasekare
主持机构	Colorado School of Mines
项目开始年	2016
	2016-06-01
项目结束日期	2017-05-31
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Standard Grant
项目经费	37950(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	The workshop will examine the environmental controls on kidney disease in Sri Lanka and posit hypotheses on how these factors interact in the specific hydrologic, geochemical and social environmental settings to produce the current disease crisis. The workshop will take a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the US to Sri Lanka for a week long site field visit to the affected areas in the north central parts of Sri Lanka and gather firsthand information on the epidemic and its environmental context. They will meet with local researchers in universities and other governmental and non-governmental agencies to study and assess the problem. They will conduct two workshops with local experts. The team members will be selected to represent multiple areas of expertise including environmental sciences and engineering, surface and subsurface hydrology, soil science, geochemistry, behavioral sciences and environmental psychology, geographic information systems, medicine and public health,. The primary goal is to provide expertise on the assessment of the factors that contribute to the epidemic. Having assessed the problem from a broad perspective and discussed the various environmental interactions that could lead to the present set of conditions, the various disciplines will then be well posed to posit research project to multiple agencies to address those parts of the problems amenable to each agency. This project is jointly funded by GEO/EAR, ENG/CBET and OD/OISE. This workshop will examine the complex environmental processes of hydrology, engineering and agricultural production of Sri Lanka that appear to contribute to the occurrence of widespread kidney disease. There is the consensus that this is a multi-factorial disease related to chronic exposure to arsenic, cadmium and nephrotoxic pesticides. Additional risk factors such as drinking water contamination in shallow wells and the use of pesticides and contaminated triple phosphate fertilizer have also been identified.
来源学科分类	Geosciences - Earth Sciences
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/69540
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tissa Illangasekare.Workshop for Information Exchange and Framework Development for Study of Epidemiological, Hydrological, and Social Factors Contributing to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKDu) in Sri Lank.2016.