Sentences with phrase «on diarrhoeal disease»

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.

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.

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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.

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).

Cases and controls, or their guardians, were asked to complete a postal risk factor questionnaire, which included variables on infant feeding, social factors, accommodation, travel, and contact with persons with diarrhoeal disease.

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.

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