Scaling up diarrhea prevention and treatment interventions: A lives saved tool analysis

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Walker, Christa L Fischer ^a   Friberg, Ingrid K ^a   Binkin, Nancy ^b   Young, Mark ^b   Walker, Neff ^a   Fontaine, Olivier ^c   Weissman, Eva ^d   Gupta, Akanksha ^b   Black, Robert E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d AVENIR HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; RETINOL; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE; WATER; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTERVENTION STUDY; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; SANITATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; COST; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79953694797     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000428     Document Type: Article

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