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| Title |
Country characteristics and acute diarrhea in children from developing nations: a multilevel study
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, August 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-015-2120-8 |
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| Authors |
Ángela María Pinzón-Rondón, Carol Zárate-Ardila, Alfonso Hoyos-Martínez, Ángela María Ruiz-Sternberg, Alberto Vélez-van-Meerbeke |
| Abstract |
Each year 2.5 billion cases of diarrheal disease are reported in children under five years, and over 1,000 die. Country characteristics could play a role on this situation. We explored associations between country characteristics and diarrheal disease in children under 5 years of age, adjusting by child, mother and household attributes in developing countries. This study included 348,706 children from 40 nations. We conducted a multilevel analysis of data from the Demographic and Health Surveys and the World Bank. The prevalence of acute diarrhea was 14 %. Country inequalities (OR = 1.335; 95 % CI 1.117-1.663) and country's low income (OR = 1.488; 95 % CI 1.024-2.163) were associated with diarrhea, and these country characteristics changed the associations of well-known determinants of diarrhea. Specifically, living in poor countries strengthens the association of poor household wealth and mother's lack of education with the disease. Other factors associated with diarrhea were female sex of the child (OR = 0.922; 95 % CI 0.900-0.944), age of the child (OR = 0.978; 95 % CI 0.978-0.979), immunization status (OR = 0.821; 95 % CI 0.799-0.843), normal birthweight (OR = 0.879; 95 % CI 0.834-0.926), maternal age (OR = 0.987; 95 % CI 0.985-0.989), lack of maternal education (OR = 1.416; 95 % CI 1.283-1.564), working status of the mother (OR = 1.136; 95 % CI 1.106-1.167), planned pregnancy (OR = 0.774; 95 % CI 0.753-0.795), a nuclear family structure (OR = 0.949; 95 % CI 0.923-0.975), and household wealth (OR = 0.948; 95 % CI 0.921-0.977). Inequalities and lack of resources at the country level in developing countries -but not health expenditure- were associated with acute diarrhea, independently of child, family and household features. The broad environment considerably modifies well-known social determinants of acute diarrhea and public health campaigns designed to target diarrhea should consider macro characteristics of the country. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 285 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 55 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 47 | 16% |
| Lecturer | 27 | 9% |
| Researcher | 22 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 17 | 6% |
| Other | 48 | 17% |
| Unknown | 71 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 111 | 39% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 57 | 20% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 2% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 2% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 25 | 9% |
| Unknown | 76 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 June 2021.
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#2,654,112
of 22,824,164 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#3,038
of 14,869 outputs
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#36,322
of 266,186 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#68
of 349 outputs
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