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IJE Advance Access originally published online on November 7, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(6):1439-1441; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl232
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Commentary: Child health surveys: the equity dimension

Cesar G Victora

Universidade Federal de Pelotas, CP 464, 96001-970 Pelotas, RS, Brazil.E-mail: cvictora@terra.com.br

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Larson and colleagues1 make an important contribution to the literature on inequities in child health in Asia, by providing evidence of marked gender and socioeconomic bias in diarrhoea management in Bangladesh. Their findings speak for themselves. Oral rehydration (ORS), a low-cost intervention that could prevent ~13% of all under-five deaths in the world,2 was significantly more likely to be administered to boys than to girls, and to the least poor than to the poorest. Antibiotics, that are only indicated in a small proportion of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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