Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from childhood diarrhoea by 2015

Olivier Fontaine; Margaret Kosek; Shinjini Bhatnagar; Cynthia Boschi-Pinto; Kit Yee Chan; Christopher Duggan; Homero Martinez; Hugo Ribeiro; Nigel C Rollins; Mohammed A Salam; Mathuram Santosham; John D Snyder; Alexander C Tsai; Beth Vargas; Igor Rudan

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000041

Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from childhood diarrhoea by 2015

PLoS Med. 2009 Mar 10;6(3):e41. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000041.

Authors

Olivier Fontaine¹, Margaret Kosek, Shinjini Bhatnagar, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Kit Yee Chan, Christopher Duggan, Homero Martinez, Hugo Ribeiro, Nigel C Rollins, Mohammed A Salam, Mathuram Santosham, John D Snyder, Alexander C Tsai, Beth Vargas, Igor Rudan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Abstract

Olivier Fontaine and colleagues applied a priority-setting methodology to identify research priorities aimed at reducing global diarrhea mortality by 2015.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Administrative Personnel / psychology
Child
Child, Preschool
Diarrhea / mortality
Diarrhea / prevention & control*
Diarrhea, Infantile / economics
Diarrhea, Infantile / mortality
Diarrhea, Infantile / prevention & control
Global Health
Goals
Humans
Infant
Investments
Policy Making
Research Design
Research Support as Topic*
Research*
World Health Organization

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding