Global burden of childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea
By C. Walker, I. Rudan, Li Liu, H. Nair, E. Theodoratou, Z. Bhutta, K. O'Brien, H. Campbell, R. Black. The Lancet, 2013
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Diarrhoea and pneumonia are the leading infectious causes of childhood morbidity and mortality. We comprehensively reviewed the epidemiology of childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia in 2010–11 to inform the planning of integrated control programmes for both illnesses. We estimated that, in 2010, there were 1·731 billion episodes of diarrhoea (36 million of which progressed to severe episodes) and 120 million episodes of pneumonia (14 million of which progressed to severe episodes) in children younger than 5 years. We estimated that, in 2011, 700 000 episodes of diarrhoea and 1·3 million of pneumonia led to death. A high proportion of deaths occurs in the first 2 years of life in both diseases—72% for diarrhoea and 81% for pneumonia. The epidemiology of childhood diarrhoea and that of pneumonia overlap, which might be partly because of shared risk factors, such as undernutrition, suboptimum breastfeeding, and zinc deficiency. Rotavirus is the most common cause of vaccine-preventable severe diarrhoea (associated with 28% of cases), and Streptococcus pneumoniae (18·3%) of vaccine-preventable severe pneumonia. Morbidity and mortality from childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea are falling, but action is needed globally and at country level to accelerate the reduction.
Subfields: Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Nutrition and Dietetics
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- World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 22 Foodborne Bacterial, Protozoal, and Viral Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis (2015, neutral): “, “envelope” of diarrheal incidence) for 2010 by combining estimates of diarrheal incidence for children<5 years of age and persons 5 years of age [13,36].”
- Cryptosporidium species in humans and animals: current understanding and research needs (2014, background): “Furthermore, the epidemiology of diarrhoea in children is thought to overlap with that of pneumonia, perhaps owing to shared risk factors such as insufficient nutrition, suboptimal breastfeeding and zinc deficiency (Walker et al. 2013).”
- Global, regional, and national estimates of rotavirus mortality in children <5 years of age, 2000–2013 (2016, background): “pathogens and possible detection of rotavirus in asymptomatically infected children [11, 13, 25].”