Prevalence and Factors Associated with Diarrhoea among Children between 6 and 59 Months of Age in Mwanza City Tanzania
Author(s) -
Silas Kabhele,
Moses NewAaron,
Stephen M. Kibusi,
Ainory Peter Gesase
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of tropical pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.464
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1465-3664
pISSN - 0142-6338
DOI - 10.1093/tropej/fmx109
Subject(s) - medicine , environmental health , tanzania , public health , logistic regression , odds ratio , diarrhea , pediatrics , hand washing , under five , demography , hygiene , socioeconomics , nursing , pathology , sociology
Childhood diarrhoea is a global public health problem especially in unplanned settlements of low- and middle-income countries. Different studies have associated household settlement and childhood diarrhoea, but the prevalence and risk factors associated with childhood diarrhoea at the community level are not clearly known.
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