The magnitude of the global problem of acute diarrhoeal disease: a review of active surveillance data.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization ·Vol. 60 ·No. 4 ·1982-00-00 ·Pages 605-13

Snyder JD, Merson MH

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Keywords

Africa Age Distribution Asia Bangladesh Child Mortality Costa Rica Demographic Factors Developing Countries Diarrhea Diseases Egypt Ethiopia Guatemala Incidence India Indonesia Infant Mortality Kenya Latin America Measurement Morbidity Mortality Nigeria Population Population Dynamics Population Statistics Research Methodology Vital Statistics

MeSH Terms

Acute Disease Child, Preschool Developing Countries Diarrhea/epidemiology,mortality Diarrhea, Infantile/epidemiology,mortality Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Population Surveillance

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Snyder J D

Merson M H

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Data from 24 published studies were anlayzed in order to estimate the annual morbidity and mortality from acute diarrheal diseases in the developing world. 22 of the studies involved frequent surveillance through home visits to families in communities

the other 2 were multicountry studies in which diarrhea mortality was calculated on the basis of death certificate information. Morbidity rates were found to be highest in the 6-11 month age group, while the mortality rates were greatest in infants under 1 year of age and children 1 year old. For children under 5 years of age, the median incidence of diarhhea was 2.2 episodes/child/year for all studies and 3.0 episodes/child/year for the studies that had the smallest populations and most frequent surveillance. Using 1980 population estimates, the estimated total yearly morbidity and mortality from diarrheal diseases for children under 5 years of age in Africa, Asia (excluding China), and Latin America were 744-1000 million episodes and 4.6 million deaths. (author's)

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Article Info

Journal

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Abbr.

Bull World Health Organ

ISSN

0042-9686

Published

1982-00-00

Pages

605-13

Language

English

Region

Switzerland

NLM ID

7507052

PMCID

PMC2536091

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