Municipal planners incorporated information on costs into discussions with the communities about what to do to decrease diarrhoea incidence.
By registering their existence on Google Maps the group has doubled the rate of polio vaccination from 40% to 80%, decreased diarrhoea and malaria rates in the slum, and is lobbying for electricity.
In Alcozauca, the research team explained to the municipal planners that a programme of building latrines could potentially decrease the childhood diarrhoea rate by 16percentt.
The results were exceptional: Diarrhoea rates dropped to almost zero and child deaths plummeted.
Several studies with probiotics, including Saccharomyces boulardi, Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and other strains report reductions in nosocomial diarrhoea rates, as well as reductions in antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and recurrences of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea.
Criminalising abortion does not decrease abortion rates.
"There was no call for increase of rates or decrease of rates," he said.
After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, formula donations sent to affected areas resulted in immediate decreased rates of breastfeeding and higher rates of diarrhoea and mortality among young children.
Recently, a randomised controlled trial indicated that preventing energy deficit with supplemental parenteral nutrition could decrease the rate of infections in ICU patients with EN failure [ 18], but its impact on the risk of diarrhoea has never been studied.
Bitumen increases birth defects and decreases birth rates.
