The magnitude of the global problem of acute diarrhoeal disease: a review of active surveillance data.

JD Snyder, MH Merson - Bulletin of the world health organization, 1982 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
JD Snyder, MH Merson
Bulletin of the world health organization, 1982ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The magnitude of the global problem of acute diarrhoeal disease: a review of active
surveillance data Page 1 Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 60 (4): 605 - 613 (1982) The
magnitude of the global problem of acute diarrhoeal disease: a review of active surveillance
data JOHN D. SNYDER 1 & MICHAEL H. MERSON2 Datafrom 24 published studies were
analysed in order to estimate the annual morbidity and mortality from acute diarrhoeal disease
in the developing world. Twenty-two of the studies involvedfrequent surveillance through …
METHODS
The initial studies selected for this review were iden-tified by a computersearch of the scientific literature
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