Acute diarrhoeal disease in India and Indonesia.

Acute diarrhoea is still a leading cause of child mortality and morbidity, second only to pneumonia as a killer of children, in India and Indonesia. Untreated diarrhoea precipitates malnutrition and is often the underlying cause of marasmus and kwashiorkor. Shigella and salmonella dysenteries are responsible for about 60% of all cases in Indonesia and India.

Management of pneumonia in India and Indonesia.

Although the death rates from neonatal tetanus have been lowered and the death rates from childhood diarrhoea are becoming lower in India and Indonesia, death rates from pneumonia have not yet begun to fall. Pneumonia has become the greatest killer of children and the most important cause of preventable death. The reason for this relative rise in significance may lie in the failure to realize that the majority of the most acute cases of respiratory illness are not viral but rather bacterial infections which rapidly respond to appropriate antibiotic therapy.

Food intake and work allocation of male and female farmers in an impoverished Indian village.

1. The energy balance and activity allocation of eight male and eight female Indian farmers were measured for 4 d during 10 months in both the dry and wet seasons of 1983. 2.