Human Health Risks Associated With Wastewater Treatment in Arctic Canada

• Main Author: Daley, Kiley
• Other Authors: Interdisciplinary PhD Programme, Doctor of Philosophy, Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace, Dr. Lynne Robinson, Dr. Lisbeth Truelstrup Hansen, Dr. Daniel Rainham, Dr. Rob Jamieson, Received, Yes
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Indigenous Health; Arctic; Rural and Remote Health; Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA); Water; Sanitation; and Hygiene (WASH); Canada; Naujaat; Nunavut; Pangnirtung; Human health; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/79726

This dissertation provides the first estimates of microbial health risks attributable to wastewater treatment systems in Arctic Canada. A participatory quantitative microbial risk assessment was designed to model a range of exposures scenarios and mitigations. In Chapter Two, the state of knowledge...