Oral rehydration therapies in Senegal, Mali, and Sierra Leone: a spatial analysis of changes over time and implications for policy

Background Oral rehydration solution (ORS) is a simple intervention that can prevent childhood deaths from severe diarrhea and dehydration. In a previous study, we mapped the use of ORS treatment subnationally and found that ORS coverage increased over time, while the use of home-made alternatives o...

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Published in:	BMC medicine Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 405 - 13
Main Authors:	Wiens, Kirsten E., Schaeffer, Lauren E., Sow, Samba O., Ndoye, Babacar, Cain, Carrie Jo, Baumann, Mathew M., Johnson, Kimberly B., Lindstedt, Paulina A., Blacker, Brigette F., Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., Cormier, Natalie M., Daoud, Farah, Earl, Lucas, Farag, Tamer, Khalil, Ibrahim A., Kinyoki, Damaris K., Larson, Heidi J., LeGrand, Kate E., Cook, Aubrey J., Malta, Deborah C., Månsson, Johan C., Mayala, Benjamin K., Mokdad, Ali H., Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu U., Sankoh, Osman, Sartorius, Benn, Topor-Madry, Roman, Troeger, Christopher E., Welgan, Catherine A., Werdecker, Andrea, Hay, Simon I., Reiner, Robert C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 21.12.2020 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Administration, Oral Analysis Bayesian analysis Bicarbonates - therapeutic use Biomedicine Care and treatment Child Child Mortality - history Child Mortality - trends Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Computational fluid dynamics Dehydration Diarrhea Diarrhea - epidemiology Diarrhea - therapy Diarrhea in children Fatalities Female Fluid Therapy - history Fluid Therapy - methods Fluid Therapy - statistics & numerical data Fluid Therapy - trends Forecasts and trends Glucose - therapeutic use Health care policy Health policies Health policy Health Policy - history Health Policy - trends History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Humans Infant Male Mali - epidemiology Medicine Medicine & Public Health Oral rehydration solution Oral rehydration therapy Potassium Chloride - therapeutic use Public health administration Recommended home fluids Rehydration Research Article Senegal - epidemiology Severity of Illness Index Sierra Leone - epidemiology Sodium Chloride - therapeutic use Spatial Analysis Time Factors Treatment Outcome Trends Viruses Mali Senegal Sierra Leone Recommended home fluids Oral rehydration solution Diarrhea Spatial analysis Oral rehydration therapy Geospatial modeling Health policies
ISSN:	1741-7015, 1741-7015
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