The current childhood mortality burden highlights the need of a focused global diarrhea
action plan. The findings suggest that with proper packaging of interventions and delivery …

Learning Objectives After reading this chapter and answering the discussion questions that
follow, you should be able to Define the different types of childhood diarrhea and distinguish …

Worldwide, early childhood infectious diarrhea continues to be a significant concern.
Diarrheal illness affects the world's youngest and most vulnerable citizens …

The annual number of deaths from diarrheal diseases among the 0–4 year age group in low-
and middle-income countries (LMICs) has dropped by 89 percent, from 4.6 million in 1980 to …

One in 12 of the children born in 2001 have died or will die before their fifth birthday. This
represents an annual total of 10.8 million childhood deaths, about 70% of which occur in …

Although significant success has occurred in combating the huge number of young children
who die each year of common preventable and treatable infectious diseases, many millions …

Background Many countries have shown marked declines in diarrhoeal disease mortality
among children younger than 5 years. With this analysis, we provide updated results on …

Diarrheal illness remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide,
despite ongoing progress in our basic understanding of its epidemiology, pathogenesis, and …

Setting Research Priorities to Reduce Mortality and Morbidity of Childhood Diarrhoeal
Disease in the Next 15 Years | PLOS Medicine Skip to main content Advertisement PLOS …

Background Childhood diarrhea deaths have declined more than 80% from 1980 to 2015, in
spite of an increase in the number of children in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) …