Prevalence and costs of childhood diarrhoea in the slums of Dhaka

作者: M. Jahangir Alam

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摘要: This study seeks to identify the engineering, behavioural and socio-economic determinants of childhood diarrhoea its duration compute resulting costs borne by slum dwellers. The is based on a survey 480 households in 32 slums Dhaka.

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