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Oral rehydration therapy and its effect on child mortality in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Hoda Rashad
Hoda Rashad
Affiliation:
Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University
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Extract

A major Egyptian national programme for the control of diarrhoeal disease was launched in February 1984, with the aim of reducing the dehydration-specific mortality resulting from acute diarrhoea (52% of all infant deaths in 1979) and thus to reduce overall infant and childhood mortality.

Type
Monitoring interventions and assessment of their effects
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 21 , supplement S10: Health Interventions and Mortality Change in Developing Countries , 1989 , pp. 105 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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