Determinants of National Diarrheal Disease Burden

The economic burden of diarrheal disease in a tertiary level hospital, Gauteng, South Africa.

BACKGROUND Diarrheal disease remains one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in young children in South Africa. Although a rotavirus vaccine will reduce rotavirus diarrheal morbidity and mortality, its introduction and sustainability will incur considerable costs. The aim of this study was to estimate the costs associated with diarrheal disease of all etiologies in children <5 years ...

Diarrheal Disease in Rural Mozambique: Burden, Risk Factors and Etiology of Diarrheal Disease among Children Aged 0–59 Months Seeking Care at Health Facilities

BACKGROUND Diarrheal disease remains a leading cause of illness and death, particularly in low-income countries. Its burden, microbiological causes and risk factors were examined in children aged 0-59 months living in Manhiça, rural southern Mozambique. METHODS Trends of diarrhea-related burden of disease were estimated during the period 2001-2012. A prospective, age-stratified and matched (b...

National burden of disease in India from indoor air pollution.

In the last decade, a number of quantitative epidemiological studies of specific diseases have been done in developing countries that for the first time allow estimation of the total burden of disease (mortality and morbidity) attributable to use of solid fuels in adult women and young children, who jointly receive the highest exposures because of their household roles. Few such studies are ava...

The Global Burden of Rotavirus Diarrheal Diseases: Results from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2016

Do national research priorities align with burden of disease?

lessons of the past, but not to burden those who have not been the cause of the problems with the solutions (at least primarily!). We have to identify realistic, fair, and equitable global solutions. This may involve those of us who have been lucky enough to be born in the rich North to pay more for food. We have to open access to our markets so that poorer producers living in the South can hav...