Community-based hygiene education to reduce diarrhoeal disease in rural Zaire: Impact of the intervention on diarrhoeal morbidity

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 1050-1059

  Haggerty, Patricia A ^a   Muladi, Kalengaie ^b   Kirkwood, Betty R ^a   Ashworth, Ann ^a   Manunebo, Manwela ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre National de Planification de Nutrition Humaine   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIARRHOEA PREVENTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HYGIENE INTERVENTION;

ZAIRE, BANDUNDU PROVINCE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DIARRHEA; EATING HABIT; FECES; HAND WASHING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; DIARRHEA--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; DISEASES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EDUCATION; FRENCH SPEAKING AFRICA; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HYGIENE; MIDDLE AFRICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SUMMARY REPORT; YOUTH; ZAIRE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; INTERVIEWS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0028166459     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/23.5.1050     Document Type: Article

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