From disease control to child health and development.
World Health Forum
; 19(2): 174-81, 1998.
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ABSTRACT
PIP: Until the late 1960s, health professionals most often recommended that people with diarrheal disease take antidiarrheal drugs and refrain from eating for at least 24 hours. At the same time, work was underway on the development of oral rehydration therapy (ORT), which was subsequently adopted in 1971 to complement the limited supply of intravenous treatment for thousands of patients in West Bengal. The success of ORT in treating diarrheal disease led to the establishment of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Program for the Control of Diarrheal Diseases in 1980, and the subsequent broader access to packets of oral rehydration salts in health facilities. WHO was also involved in efforts to control acute respiratory infections, establishing the Acute Respiratory Infections Program to validate the use of clinical signs for diagnosis and evaluate the impact of the approach. Since WHO's maintenance of these two parallel single-disease programs resulted in some duplication of effort, they were merged in 1990 to form the Division of Diarrheal and Acute Respiratory Disease Control. The division's mandate was later modified and expanded in 1996 in the creation of the Division of Child Health and Development responsible for the control of diarrheal diseases, acute respiratory infections, and other childhood killers like measles, malaria, and malnutrition.
Palabras clave
Biology; Child Development; Child Health; Diarrhea--prevention and control; Diseases--prevention and control; Health; Historical Survey; Infections; Integrated Programs; International Agencies; Malaria--prevention and control; Malnutrition--prevention and control; Measles--prevention and control; Nutrition Disorders; Organization And Administration; Organizations; Parasitic Diseases; Programs; Respiratory Infections--prevention and control; Un; Viral Diseases; Who; World
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Infecciones del Sistema Respiratorio
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Organización Mundial de la Salud
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Servicios de Salud del Niño
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Prestación Integrada de Atención de Salud
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Diarrea
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
Límite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
Idioma:
En
Revista:
World Health Forum
Año:
1998
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Suiza
Pais de publicación:
Suiza