Reducing deaths from diarrhoea through oral rehydration therapy
In 1980, diarrhoea was the leading cause of child mortality, accounting for 4.6 million deaths annually. Efforts to control diarrhoea over the past decade have been based on multiple, potentially powerful interventions implemented more or less simultaneously. Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) was intro...
| Published in: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2000-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862000001000010&lng=en&tlng=en |