Salud Pública de México (Dec 2019)

Historical overview of acute infectious diarrhea in Mexico and future preventive strategies

  • Gustavo A Olaiz-Fernández,
  • Elena Gabriela Gómez-Peña,
  • Arturo Juárez-Flores,
  • Félix Jesús Vicuña-de Anda,
  • Jesús Enrique Morales-Ríos,
  • Omar F Carrasco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21149/10002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 62, no. 1, ene-feb
pp. 25 – 35

Abstract

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Objective. To analyze the epidemiological aspects of AID through Mexican history and the potential strategies to pre­vent AID in Mexican population. Materials and methods. A systematic review was performed exploring the key words, diarrhea, morbidity, mortality, Mexico, health promotion for the last 20 years (1978-2018). Results. Over 8 600 articles were obtained; all of them were evaluated to consider those follow the aim of the present work. Conclusion. The result of the performed systematic review denoted the influence of AID in Mexican public health policy; the adopted actions diminished the AID’s associated risks and allowed future strategies to prevent it; those actions must include hygienic and dietetic measures, pharmaceutical innovations and tech­nological tools applied to health policies.

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