Diarrhoeal disease--epidemiology and intervention
Coetzer, P.W.; Kroukamp, L.M.
South African Medical Journal 76(9): 465-472
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0256-9574 PMID: 2683147 Document Number: 341425
The causes of the complex triad of gastro-enteritis, other related infections and malnutrition have at their roots poverty, lack of political will, overpopulation and destruction of the environment. Intervention involves multiple sectors of the economy and not only the health services of a country, and should take place as early as possible during the natural history of the disease.