Open AccessScaling Up Diarrhea Prevention and Treatment Interventions: A Lives Saved Tool Analysis
Author(s) -
Christa L. Fischer Walker,
Ingrid K. Friberg,
Nancy Binkin,
Mark Young,
Neff Walker,
Olivier Fontaine,
Eva Weissman,
Akanksha Gupta,
Robert E. Black
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
plos medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.847
H-Index - 228
eISSN - 1549-1676
pISSN - 1549-1277
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000428
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , medicine , sanitation , child mortality , diarrhea , breastfeeding , environmental health , improved sanitation , rotavirus , per capita , oral rehydration therapy , hygiene , rotavirus vaccine , pediatrics , population , nursing , health services , pathology
Using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) Christa Fischer-Walker and colleagues estimate that scale-up of diarrhea prevention and treatment interventions over 5 years in 68 high child mortality countries could avert nearly 5 million deaths.
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