Revisiting the Village Where Arsenic Contamination of Underground Water Was First Discovered in Bangladesh: Twenty-Five Years Later
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arsenic contamination; underground water; risk perception; risk communication; questionnaire survey; community-level analysis; logistic regression; social capital; mitigation policy;All these keywords.
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