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IJE Advance Access originally published online on May 15, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(3):470-473; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn069
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Cochrane Column

Taryn Young

South African Cochrane Centre, Medical Research Council, PO Box 19070, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa.

E-mail: taryn.young@mrc.ac.za

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

The aim of the Column is to highlight Cochrane Reviews of relevance to public health, and to stimulate debate on relevance, feasibility and acceptability. This month we feature the review by Ejemot et al. on hand washing for prevention of diarrhoea.

The Cochrane Collaboration (http://www.cochrane.org) is an international, non-profit organization that prepares and disseminates up-to-date systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions in order to help people make well-informed decisions. Systematic reviews aim to answer focused healthcare questions by systematically identifying and evaluating all relevant research studies and synthesizing their results.

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Hand washing for preventing Diarrhoea

RI Ejemot*, JE Ehiri, MM Meremikwu and JA Critchley

* Corresponding author. Department of Public Health, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, PMB 1115, Calabar, Nigeria. Email: reginaejemot@yahoo.com or idulove@yahoo.com

Diarrhoea causes over 2.2 million deaths every year, mostly among children under 5 years of age1,2 in low and middle income countries. When prolonged, it contributes to reduced resistance to infections, impaired growth . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Stephen P Luby

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.

Val Curtis

Hygiene Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London WC1E 7HT.


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