Review Research on The Literature of Diarrhea Disease in China, 1990-2004 (APW Report)
Summary
An Agreement for the Performance of Work (APW) was contracted with China Center for Disease Control (CDC) to do Literature review of diarrhoea (1990-2004) due to poor water supply and sanitation in China. The terms of reference are to: 1) review published and unpublished literature and household surveys on the epidemiology of illnesses related to water, sanitation and hygiene risk factors in China and produce an English-language annotated bibliography of all published and unpublished literature discovered through research; 2) review epidemiology of diarrhoeal disease in China including mortality and morbidity data with special emphasis on incidence, prevalence, data disaggregated for age, geographical area, and among different socio-economic groups; those related to bacterial and non-bacterial pathogens; those associated with different types of water and sanitation facilities (such as piped water in-house, public tap, protected well, septic tank, pit latrine, etc.); 3) review epidemiological literature to assess the relationship between water supply and sanitation interventions and diarrhoeal disease rates.The range involved in this literature review of diarrhea disease includes research papers published publicly or not in domestic and medical books from 1990 to 2004.