Prevalence and Treatment of Diarrhea Among Children in India, 2016-2021

To what extent does the use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) as treatment for child diarrhea vary between and within India’s 720 districts?In this repeated cross-sectional study, the prevalence of ORS treatment for child diarrhea increased at a national level between 2016 and 2021. However, this increase was not even between or within India’s 720 districts.This study suggests that efforts aimed at promoting ORS treatment for child diarrhea in India must address the place-based factors that might be associated with underuse of this treatment.

Corresponding Author: S. V. Subramanian, PhD, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Kresge, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02115 (svsubram@hsph.harvard.edu).

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