Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children's health across 35 developing countries.

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Published in Nat Commun on October 09, 2017

Authors

Diego Herrera1,2,3, Alicia Ellis4, Brendan Fisher5,6, Christopher D Golden7, Kiersten Johnson8, Mark Mulligan9, Alexander Pfaff10, Timothy Treuer11, Taylor H Ricketts5,6

Author Affiliations

1: Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, 617 Main Street Burlington, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA. dherrera@edf.org.
2: Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Aiken Center 81 Carrigan Drive Burlington, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA. dherrera@edf.org.
3: Environmental Defense Fund, 1875 Connecticut Ave NW # 600, Washington, DC, 20009, USA. dherrera@edf.org.
4: Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, 2400 Pratt St Durham, Durham, NC, 27705, USA.
5: Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, 617 Main Street Burlington, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA.
6: Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Aiken Center 81 Carrigan Drive Burlington, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA.
7: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
8: USAID Bureau for Food Security, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20004, USA.
9: Department of Geography, King's College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK.
10: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, 201 Science Dr, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
11: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 117 Eno Hall Princeton, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.

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