Factors associated with the decline in under-five diarrhea mortality in India: a LiST analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

India has achieved 86% reduction in the number of under-five diarrheal deaths from 1980 to 2015. Nonetheless diarrhea is still among the leading causes of under-five deaths. The aim of this analysis was to study the contribution of factors that led to decline in diarrheal deaths in the country and the effect of scaling up of intervention packages to address the remaining diarrheal deaths.

Methods

We assessed the attribution of different factors and intervention packages such as direct diarrhea case management interventions, nutritional factors and WASH interventions which contributed to diarrhea specific under-five mortality reduction (DSMR) during 1980 to 2015 using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST). The potential impact of scaling up different packages of intervention

SUBMITTER: Choudhary TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6816285 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature