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dc.contributor.authorRiverón Corteguera, Raúl Les_ES
dc.date.accessioned2016
dc.date.available2016
dc.date.issued1995es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/26907
dc.description.abstractThis 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)en_US
dc.description.abstractEdited version of an article published in Spanish in the BOSP. Vol. 118(2), 1995en_US
dc.format.extentiluses_ES
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBulletin of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO);29(1),mar. 1995en_US
dc.subjectDiarrhea, Infantilees_ES
dc.subjectInfant Mortalityes_ES
dc.subjectStrategic Planninges_ES
dc.subjectes_ES
dc.subjectEntrenamiento en Servicioes_ES
dc.subjectHealth Educationen_US
dc.subjectFluid Therapyes_ES
dc.subjectCubaes_ES
dc.titleStrategies and causes of reduced infant and young child diarrheal disease mortality in Cuba, 1962-1993en_US
dc.typeJournal articlesen_US
dc.rights.holderPan American Health Organizationen_US


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