| 书目名称 | Diarrhea and Malnutrition | | 副标题 | Interactions, Mechan | | 编辑 | Lincoln C. Chen,Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Institute Prof | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | There are several reasons why a consolidation of recent advances in our understanding of the interaction of diarrhea and malnutrition is indi cated and timely. It is now widely recognized that diarrhea is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children of poor countries. Due to recent advances in laboratory and field diagnostic techniques, many of the previously unrecognized etiologic agents responsible for diarrhea have been identified, thereby providing new scientific knowledge for rational control strategies. Increasingly these advances suggest that the morbidity burden of diarrhea may be of equal, if not greater, public health consequence than mortality. Diarrhea only rarely causes disease severe enough to require institutionalized medical care. The vast major ity of diseases are of mild or moderate severity, and because of high prev alence, diarrhea imposes an enormous morbidity burden and exerts a sig nificant negative impact on child growth and development. Moreover, the effects of successive episodes of diarrhea are likely to be cumulative. In contrast to several other childhood infections, the treatment of the diarrheal diseases is feasible because it uses simp | | 出版日期 | Book 1983 | | 关键词 | Absorption; bacteria; children; environment; food; health; intervention; nutrition; physiology; prevention; pu | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9284-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4615-9286-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-9284-6 | | copyright | The United Nations University 1983 |
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