TY - JOUR
T1 - Evolution of the world health organization's programmatic actions to control diarrheal diseases
AU - Wolfheim, Cathy
AU - Fontaine, Olivier
AU - Merson, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: We would like to extend our appreciation to Dr James Tulloch, Dr Elizabeth Mason and Dr Suzanne Prysor-Jones for having reviewed and provided valuable input and suggestions on this manuscript. Funding: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided financial support to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for the Control of Childhood Diarrhea Mortality (grant # 1154742) and the Maternal and Child Epidemiology Estimation (grant # 1096225). Authorship contributions: CW, OF and MM wrote different parts of the manuscript, and all authors contributed to editing the final manuscript. Competing interests: The authors completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.
Funding Information:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided financial support to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for the Control of Childhood Diarrhea Mortality (grant # 1154742) and the Maternal and Child Epidemiology Estimation (grant # 1096225).
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The Program for the Control of Diarrheal Diseases (CDD) of the World Health Organization (WHO) was created in 1978, the year the Health for All Strategy was launched at the Alma Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care. CDD quickly became one of the pillars of this strategy, with its primary goal of reducing diarrhea-associated mortality among infants and young children in developing countries. WHO expanded the previous cholera-focused unit into one that addressed all diarrheal diseases, and uniquely combined support to research and to national CDD Programs. We describe the history of the Program, summarize the results of the research it supported, and illustrate the outcome of the Program's control efforts at country and global levels. We then relate the subsequent evolution of the Program to an approach that was more technically broad and programmatically narrow and describe how this affected diarrheal diseases-related activities globally and in countries.
AB - The Program for the Control of Diarrheal Diseases (CDD) of the World Health Organization (WHO) was created in 1978, the year the Health for All Strategy was launched at the Alma Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care. CDD quickly became one of the pillars of this strategy, with its primary goal of reducing diarrhea-associated mortality among infants and young children in developing countries. WHO expanded the previous cholera-focused unit into one that addressed all diarrheal diseases, and uniquely combined support to research and to national CDD Programs. We describe the history of the Program, summarize the results of the research it supported, and illustrate the outcome of the Program's control efforts at country and global levels. We then relate the subsequent evolution of the Program to an approach that was more technically broad and programmatically narrow and describe how this affected diarrheal diseases-related activities globally and in countries.
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U2 - 10.7189/jogh.09.020802
DO - 10.7189/jogh.09.020802
M3 - Article
C2 - 31673346
AN - SCOPUS:85074439675
SN - 2047-2978
VL - 9
JO - Journal of Global Health
JF - Journal of Global Health
IS - 2
M1 - 020802
ER -