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SUBMITTER: Sood N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4015590 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20140414 5
Although diarrheal mortality is cheaply preventable with oral rehydration therapy (ORT), over 700,000 children die of diarrhea annually and many health providers fail to treat diarrheal cases with ORT. Provision of ORT may differ between for-profit and public providers. This study used Demographic and Health Survey data from 19,059 children across 29 countries in sub-Saharan Africa from 2003 to 2011 to measure differences in child diarrhea treatment between private for-profit and public health p ...[more]