• español
    • English
    • português
  • English 
    • español
    • English
    • português
  • IRIS PAHO Home
  • PAHO website
  • Indexes
  • All Collections
  • About IRIS
  • Institutional Memory
  • Contact
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
View Item 
  •   IRIS PAHO Home
  • 1.PAHO Headquarters / Sede de la OPS
  • Scientific Journals and Newsletters / Revistas Científicas y Boletines
  • Pan American Journal of Public Health
  • View Item
  •   IRIS PAHO Home
  • 1.PAHO Headquarters / Sede de la OPS
  • Scientific Journals and Newsletters / Revistas Científicas y Boletines
  • Pan American Journal of Public Health
  • View Item

Strategies and causes of reduced infant and young child diarrheal disease mortality in Cuba, 1962-1993

Thumbnail
  • Global styles
  • WHO
  • Chicago
  • Elsevier Vancouver
  • Elsevier Harvard
  • Help
  • CSV
  • RIS (Refman)
Date
1995
Author
Riverón Corteguera, Raúl L
Metadata
Show full item record
Abstract
This article describes the basic strategies employed by Cuba's Diarrheal Disease Control Program (DDCP) to reduce acute diarrheal disease (ADD) mortality among infants and young children from 1962 through 1993, together with the diarrheal disease trends recorded in these years. An initial control effort, the Program to Combat Gastroenteritis, began operating in 1963. Since then, in one form or another, increasingly effective efforts have consistently lessened ADD mortality. Among other things, these efforts have concentrated on providing improved sanitation, effective health education, proper nutrition (including promotion of breast-feeding and food hygiene), and adequate health care (which in recent times has placed increasing emphasis on oral rehydration therapy and primary care) level). Largely as a resul, recorded infant ADD mortality fell from 12.9 deaths per 1 000 live births in 1962 to 0.3 in 1993, while recorded mortality from this cause among children 1-4 years old dropped from 6.4 deaths per 10 000 children in this age group in 1962 to 0.1 in 1993. Besides describing the work performed throug 1993, the autor also outlines plans for the period through 1999 that are directed at maintaining and perhaps augmenting these gains (AU)
 
Edited version of an article published in Spanish in the BOSP. Vol. 118(2), 1995
 
Series
Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO);29(1),mar. 1995
Subject
Diarrhea, Infantile; Infant Mortality; Strategic Planning; ; ; Entrenamiento en Servicio; Health Education; Fluid Therapy; Cuba
URI
https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/26907
Collections
  • Pan American Journal of Public Health
Full text not available. Please contact PAHO Library using this e-mail for further instructions

Related items

Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

  • Thumbnail
    Advances in pediatrics and child care in Cuba, 1959-1974 
    Corteguera, R.R; García, H.F; Lazo, R.V (1976)
    This article describes the major activities carried out since 1959 in the field of pediatrics and child care in Cuba. In particular, it notes the improvements made through establishment of a national health system and ...
  • Thumbnail
    La patogénesis de las enfermedades diarreicas agudas en los primeros años de vida 
    Dammin, G. J (s.d.)
    In the City of Guatemala, diarrheal diseases are the principal cause of infant mortality. In order to clarify the pathogenesis of this type of malady, clinical and bacteriological investigations as well as autopsies were ...
  • Thumbnail
    Decline and unevenness of infant mortality in Salvador, Brazil, 1980-1988 
    Paim, Jairnilson Silva; Costa, Maria da Conceiçao N (s.d.)
    Data relating to infant mortality in Salvador, Brazil, were analyzed in order to determine how infant mortality evolved in various parts of the city during the period 1980-1988. This analysis showed sharp drops in the ...

Browse

All of IRIS PAHOCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsSeries TitleType of materialLanguageCategoryTechnical Unit/Country OfficeThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsSeries TitleType of materialLanguageCategoryTechnical Unit/Country Office

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

Pan American Health Organization
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Americas
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037, United States of America
Tel.: +1 (202) 974-3000 Fax: +1 (202) 974-3663
email: libraryhq@paho.org

Links

  • PAHO Featured Publications
  • WHO Digital Library (IRIS)
  • Virtual Health Library (VHL)
  • Global Index Medicus (GIM)

Export citations

Export the current results of the search query as a citation list. Select one of the available citation styles, or add a new one using the "Citations format" option present in the "My account" section.

The list of citations that can be exported is limited to items.

Export citations

Export the current item as a citation. Select one of the available citation styles, or add a new one using the "Citations format" option present in the "My account" section.

Export Citations