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Prevention and Control of the Diarrheal Diseases

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This chapter deals primarily with those measures that are designed to reduce the incidence of acute diarrheal illness of infectious origin. The two obvious measures are improved environmental sanitation and personal hygiene and better nutrition. However, the outcome of diarrheal disease may be powerfully influenced by management of the acute case, providing an opportunity to prevent some of the sequelae with which this volume is concerned. These consequences include life-threatening dehydration and serious growth impairment. Therapeutic actions, covered in the preceding chapter, are therefore in some sense also essential components of prevention.

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  1. Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Robert E. Black

  2. New Delhi Field Office, Ford Foundation, New Delhi, India

    Lincoln C. Chen

  3. Population Office, The Ford Foundation, New York, New York, USA

    Oscar Harkavy

  4. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dacca-2, Bangladesh

    M. Mujibur Rahaman

  5. Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, West Africa

    M. G. M. Rowland

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  1. Ford Foundation, New Delhi, India

    Lincoln C. Chen

  2. Massachustts Institute of Technology, USA

    Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser) (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser)

  3. MIT/Harvard International Food and Nutrition Program, USA

    Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser) (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser)

  4. World Hunger Program, United Nations University, USA

    Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser) (Institute Professor, Director, Senior Adviser)

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Black, R.E., Chen, L.C., Harkavy, O., Rahaman, M.M., Rowland, M.G.M. (1983). Prevention and Control of the Diarrheal Diseases. In: Chen, L.C., Scrimshaw, N.S. (eds) Diarrhea and Malnutrition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9284-6_18

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