Management of childhood diarrhoea at the household level: a population-based survey in north-east Brazil.

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on January 01, 1991

Authors

F C Barros1, C G Victora, B Forsberg, A G Maranhão, M Stegeman, A Gonzalez-Richmond, R M Martins, Z A Neuman, J McAuliffe, J A Branco

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Social Medicine, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil.

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