Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done

The Lancet

Volumn 375, Issue 9718, 2010, Pages 870-872

  Wardlaw, Tessa ^a   Salama, Peter ^a   Brocklehurst, Clarissa ^a   Chopra, Mickey ^a   Mason, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; MEASLES VACCINE; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; RETINOL; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CONTROL; GOVERNMENT; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES VACCINATION; MORTALITY; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANITATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WATER TREATMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77949327833     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61798-0     Document Type: Note

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