Early Childhood Diarrhea Predicts Impaired School Performance

2006159 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Breyette Lorntz · Center for Global Health

Alberto M. Soares · Universidade Federal do Ceará

Sean R. Moore · Center for Global Health

Relana Pinkerton · Center for Global Health

Bruce M. Gansneder

Victor E. Bovbjerg

Helen Guyatt

Aldo Â. M. Lima · Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

These findings document effects of early childhood diarrhea on later school readiness and performance and hence potential long-term human and economic costs of ECD, which warrant further attention and far greater investment for the control of ECD and its consequences.

Topics & Keywords

Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Child Nutrition and Water Access School Health and Nursing Education

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volume 25, Issue 6, pp. 513-520

DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000219524.64448.90

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