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Review

Diarrheal Diseases

Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Claudio F. Lanata, Walter Mendoza, Demissie Habte
Dean T Jamison, Richard G Feachem, Malegapuru W Makgoba, Eduard R Bos, Florence K Baingana, Karen J Hofman, Khama O Rogo
, editors.
In: Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2nd edition. Washington (DC): The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank; 2006. Chapter 9.
Review

Diarrheal Diseases

Cynthia Boschi-Pinto et al.

Excerpt

In contrast to mortality trends, morbidity due to diarrhea has not shown a parallel decline, and global estimates remain between two and three episodes of diarrhea per child under five per year. Kosek, Bern, and Guerrant (2003) estimated a global median incidence of diarrhea to be 3.2 episodes per child-year in the year 2000, similar to those found in previous reviews by Snyder and Merson (1982) and by Bern and colleagues (1992) as well as to those reported in the first edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (Jamison et al. 1993).

This chapter reviews available information published since the 1980s on the morbidity and mortality burden of diarrheal diseases in children under five years of age in the WHO African region.

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