Sentences with phrase «of diarrhoeal disease»

Appropriate use of human and non-human milk for the dietary management of children with diarrhoea (1991) Brown K, Lake A. Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research.

Household income has been shown to interact with child growth in Brazil.21 A US study of diarrhoeal disease found no interaction between breast feeding and household income.8 Household income, like social class, may not be a good marker of transmission risk.

In the community cohort component of the main diarrhoeal disease study, the incidence rate for this definition of diarrhoeal disease was 3.5 and 3.2 per 100 person - years in infant boys and girls respectively.

However, the odds of diarrhoeal disease increased with the time since breast feeding cessation (pT = 0.002 for linear trend in all infants).

During; the current cholera epidemic in Latin America, remarkably, less than 1 per cent of those affected have died, thanks to a decade or more of control of diarrhoeal disease (CDD) training and preparation.

Now, thanks to health workers at all levels; the major international agencies - including WHO, UNICEF and USAID; ministries of health: non-government organisations; and Dialogue on Diarrhoea, control of diarrhoeal diseases is an essential child health programme in virtually every developing country.

Bert Hirschhorn, an international editorial adviser since the start of the newsletter in 1980, looks at progress in the control of diarrhoeal diseases over the last 12 years and outlines future challenges.

Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: promotion of breast - feeding.

Feachem RG, Koblinsky MA 1984, Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: promotion of breast - feeding.

However, the journal is off to an excellent start, has set itself a high standard to maintain, and is a valuable source for all those interested in research and for the many concerned with the management of diarrhoeal diseases.

I strongly believe that some of the most serious challenges in the way of prevention and / or control of diarrhoeal diseases in children and infants are false customary beliefs.

Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases in young children: Promotion of breastfeeding (1984) Feachem R, Koblinsky M. Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

The objective of this WHO / UNICEF report is to focus attention on the prevention and management of diarrhoeal diseases as central to improving child survival.

With health resources diverted to treating direct casualties of war, Popal fears the rise of diarrhoeal diseases like cholera, typhoid and measles.

* 20 to 30 % of plant and animal species likely to be at increased risk of extinction * many millions more people than today projected to experience floods every year due to sea level rise * increases in malnutrition; increased deaths, diseases and injury due to extreme weather events; increased burden of diarrhoeal diseases; increased frequency of cardio - respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone in urban areas * hundreds of millions of people exposed to increased water stress

«increases in malnutrition; increased deaths, diseases and injury due to extreme weather events; increased burden of diarrhoeal diseases; increased frequency of cardio - respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone in urban areas»

This amounts to 18 % of all under - five deaths and means that more than 4,000 children are dying every day as a result of diarrhoeal diseases.

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88 % of diarrhoeal deaths worldwide are due to unsafe water, poor sanitation and insufficient hygiene, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

These three interventions could potentially ameliorate at least 20 % of annual global deaths from treatable disease (unfortunately we haven't yet figured out cardiovascular disease): Lower respiratory infection (list item # 3); Diarrhoeal disease (list item # 1); HIV / AIDS (list item # 2).

Sahel nurse training scheme Suzanne Prysor - Jones reviews the experience of introducing diarrhoeal disease control (CDD) teaching modules in schools of nursing in the Sahel region of West Africa.

1.35 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diarrhoeal diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and overcrowding.

The number of infants receiving mixed feeding was too small (table 1) to estimate precisely its effect on diarrhoeal disease, and for further analysis they were combined either with exclusive breast milk or with formula.

Months since breast feeding cessation and duration of breast feeding were both significantly associated with diarrhoeal disease, but much of these effects were due to the inclusion of the currently breast fed and never breast fed infants; neither was statistically significant when these infants were omitted.

Our results suggest that the cumulative effect of breast feeding, as measured using duration, is less important for diarrhoeal disease than the time since breast feeding cessation.

For infants who had been weaned, information was not collected on the types of food they were weaned onto, but data were available on consumption of foods in the 10 days prior to symptoms in cases (interview in controls), but none were significantly associated with diarrhoeal disease (data not shown).

Population attributable fractions (PAFs) for diarrhoeal disease associated with infant feeding variables were estimated as (proportion of cases exposed) × (OR − 1) / OR.13 Survival analysis was used to estimate the prevalence of breast feeding at age 6 months while allowing for censoring, due to some infants being aged under 6 months.

Conditional logistic regression was employed to estimate adjusted odds ratios for infant feeding and method of sterilisation on diarrhoeal disease, and to assess whether the effect of breast feeding persisted after breast feeding had ceased.

There is consistent evidence of a protective effect of exclusive breast feeding against diarrhoeal disease in the first 4 — 6 months of life.4 Likely causes are the immune properties of breast milk and less exposure to pathogens in contaminated milk, food, bottles, or teats.5 Contamination and inadequate sterilisation pose less of a problem in developed than developing countries, and this explains the greater protection of breast feeding in developing countries where poverty, poor hygiene, and infectious diseases are common.

Many epidemiologic studies consistently show that breastfeeding not only provides optimal bio-avaiable nutrients, but also protects against diarrhoeal, respiratory and other diseases [11][12][13][14], including the non-communicable disease of obesity in later life [15][16][17] and leads to improved cognitive and psychosocial outcomes [18][19][20].

Molbak K, Gottschau A, Aaby P, Hojlyng N, Ingholt L, da Silva AP 1994, Prolonged breast feeding, diarrhoeal disease, and survival of children in Guinea - Bissau.

The group agreed that more knowledge is needed about optimal feeding practices in diarrhoeal disease and recommended the use of locally available foods for this purpose.

Several risk factors for diarrhoea have been identified and have been the focus of specific interventions to reduce diarrhoeal diseases.

The dangers of this must be emphasised because of the widespread use of feeding bottles in many developing countries where diarrhoeal diseases are endemic.

Most of the reduction in mortality came from a decrease in deaths due to diarrhoeal diseases and measles.

The four - member panel, chaired by Alejandro Cravioto of the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, unambiguously rejects that theory.

The study was funded by the United States Agency for International Development by cooperative agreements with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), and the saving newborn lives program by Save the Children (US) with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In the United States, more than 40 % of all infant hospitalizations are attributable to infectious disease... Diarrhoeal diseases and digestive tract infections are the most common infectious diseases in infants....

Effects of the El Niño and ambient temperature on hospital admissions for diarrhoeal diseases in Peruvian children.

In regions suffering from droughts, a greater incidence of diarrhoeal and other water - related diseases will mirror the deterioration in water quality (Patz, 2001; Environment Canada, 2004).