title: Prevention of diarrhoea in young children in developing countries.
abstract: An updated review of nonvaccine interventions for the prevention of childhood diarrhoea in developing countries is presented. The importance of various key preventive strategies (breast-feeding, water supply and sanitation improvements) is confirmed and certain aspects of others (promotion of personal and domestic hygiene, weaning education/food hygiene) are refined. Evidence is also presented to suggest that, subject to cost-effectiveness examination, two other strategies-vitamin A supplementation and the prevention of low birth weight-should be promoted to the first category of interventions, as classified by Feachem, i.e. those which are considered to have high effectiveness and strong feasibility.
authors.affiliation: Maternal and Child Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, England.
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Huttly
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pisani
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003906:Developing Countries; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*