• Bull. World Health Organ. · Jan 1997

    Review

    Prevention of diarrhoea in young children in developing countries.

    • S R Huttly, S S Morris, and V Pisani.
    • Maternal and Child Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, England.
    • Bull. World Health Organ. 1997 Jan 1;75(2):163-74.

    AbstractAn updated review of nonvaccine interventions for the prevention of childhood diarrhoea in developing countries is presented. The importance of various key preventive strategies (breast-feeding, water supply and sanitation improvements) is confirmed and certain aspects of others (promotion of personal and domestic hygiene, weaning education/food hygiene) are refined. Evidence is also presented to suggest that, subject to cost-effectiveness examination, two other strategies-vitamin A supplementation and the prevention of low birth weight-should be promoted to the first category of interventions, as classified by Feachem, i.e. those which are considered to have high effectiveness and strong feasibility.

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