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Diarrheal diseases - WHO documents and publications

WHO | Diarrhoea

• Epidemiology

  • CHERG methods and assumptions for diarrhoea mortality estimates [2004]

  • Disease outbreaks: acute watery diarrhoeal syndrome

  • Improving diarrhoea estimates [2002]

  • Review Research on The Literature of Diarrhea Disease in China (1990-2004) [2005]

  • Undernutrition as an underlying cause of child deaths associated with diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and measles [2004]

• Management

  • Clinical management of acute diarrhoea. WHO/Unicef joint statement [2004]

  • Diarrhoea treatment guidelines including new recommendations for the use of ORS and zinc supplementation for clinic-based healthcare workers [2005]

  • Implementing the new recommendations on the clinical management of diarrhoea [2006]

  • Inter-country technical consultation on improvement of diarrhoea management in the context of child survival and technical updates of the IMCI guidelines: report on a WHO meeting, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 26-28 February 2007 [2007]

  • Oral Rehydration Salts [2006]

  • Production of zinc tablets and zinc oral solutions [2007]

  • The treatment of diarrhoea. A manual for physicians and other senior health workers [2005]

• Campylobacter

  • Campylobacter [2000]

• Cholera

  • Acute diarrhoeal diseases in complex emergencies: critical steps [2004]

  • Antimicrobial resistance in shigellosis, cholera and campylobacteriosis [2001]

  • Cholera and other epidemic diarrhoeal diseases control – Technical cards on environmental sanitation [1997]

  • Cholera outbreak

  • Cholera outbreak: assessing the outbreak response and improving preparedness [2004]

  • Epidemic diarrhoeal disease preparedness and response. Training and practice. Facilitator’s guide [1997]

  • Epidemic diarrhoeal disease preparedness and response. Training and practice. Participant’s manual [1997]

  • First steps for managing an outbreak of acute diarrhoea [2004]

  • Interagency diarrhoeal disease kits - information note [2006]

  • Laboratory methods for the diagnosis of epidemic dysentery and cholera [1999]

  • Oral cholera vaccine use in complex emergencies: what next! [2006]

  • Weekly epidemiological record: cholera articles

• Escherichia coli infections

  • Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) [2005]

• Food safety and foodborne illness [2007]

• Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage

  • Combating waterborne disease at the household level [2007]

• Rotavirus infections

  • Guidelines for estimating the economic burden of diarrhoeal disease, with focus on assessing the costs of rotavirus diarrhoea [2005]

  • Report on the Intercountry Workshop on Rotavirus Surveillance, Cairo, Egypt, 21-23 September 2004 [2005]

• Salmonella

  • Drug-resistant Salmonella [2005]

• Shigella

  • Disease outbreaks: shigellosis

  • Guidelines for the control of shigellosis, including epidemics due to Shigella dysenteriae type 1 [2005]

  • Vaccine research: Shigella

• Typhoid fever

  • Disease outbreaks: typhoid fever

• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

  • PHAST step-by-step guide: A participatory approach for the control of diarrhoeal diseases [1998]

  • Preventing travellers' diarrhoea: How to make drinking-water safe [2005]

  • Safer water, better health : costs, benefits and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health [2008]

  • Water Quality Interventions to Prevent Diarrhoea: Cost and Cost-Effectiveness [2008]

  • Water, sanitation and hygiene : quantifying the health impact at national and local levels in countries with incomplete water supply and sanitation coverage [2007]

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