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Despite all advances in health technology,improved management and increased use of Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) in the past decades,diarrhea remains among the five major killers of children under five. This discriptive community based cross-sectional survey utilized environmental factors (availability,type and status of latrine,and hand washing facilities) and behavioral attributes (latrine use,hand washing practice after latrine use and at each critical moment and children's faeces disposal) to determine under five diarrheal morbidity prevalence in the selected rural community.Hence,the study may have significance to those people who are in the health profession either to consolidate and or to reevaluate their approaches and strategies to combat the occurence of diarrheal morbidity and improve or change societal attitude towads their sanitation behaviour particularly in the rural community.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Diseases & disorders

• Full title: Diarrheal Morbidity Prevalence in Under Five Children
• Subtitle: Diarrheal Morbidity Prevalence in Association with Environmental Factors and Hygienic Practices: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study
• Author: Mulugeta Mekonnen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88
• EAN: 9783639347876
• ISBN: 3639347870
• ID: 06841272
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 141 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. April 2011

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