The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda

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Principais autores:	Wagner, Zachary, Asiimwe, John Bosco, Dow, William H., Levine, David I.
Formato:	Journal Article
Idioma:	en_US
Publicado em:	PLoS journal 2022
Assuntos:	Children Child mortality Diarrhoea Oral rehydration salts Price
Acesso em linha:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16285 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002734

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spelling	10361-162852022-03-27T05:18:01Z The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda Wagner, Zachary Asiimwe, John Bosco Dow, William H. Levine, David I. Children Child mortality Diarrhoea Oral rehydration salts Price This article was published in The PLoS Medicine journal [Open access, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] and the definite version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002734 The Article's website is at: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002734 Over half a million children die each year of diarrheal illness, although nearly all deaths could be prevented with Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS). The literature on ORS documents both impressive health benefits and persistent underuse. At the same time, little is known about why ORS is underused and what can be done to increase use. We hypothesized that price and inconvenience are important barriers to ORS use and tested whether eliminating financial and access constraints increases ORS coverage. The findings show that most caretakers of children with diarrhoea in low-income countries seek care in the private sector where they are required to pay for ORS. However, our results suggest that price is an important barrier to ORS use and that switching to free distribution by CHWs substantially increases ORS coverage. Switching to free distribution is low-cost, easily scalable, and could substantially reduce child mortality. Convenience was not important in this context. Published 2022-02-22T03:29:33Z 2022-02-22T03:29:33Z 2019 2019-01-24 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16285 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002734 en_US https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002734 PLOS Medicine PLoS journal
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topic	Children Child mortality Diarrhoea Oral rehydration salts Price
spellingShingle	Children Child mortality Diarrhoea Oral rehydration salts Price Wagner, Zachary Asiimwe, John Bosco Dow, William H. Levine, David I. The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
description	This article was published in The PLoS Medicine journal [Open access, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] and the definite version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002734 The Article's website is at: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002734
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author	Wagner, Zachary Asiimwe, John Bosco Dow, William H. Levine, David I.
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title	The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
title_short	The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
title_full	The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
title_fullStr	The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
title_full_unstemmed	The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
title_sort	role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: a cluster randomized trial in uganda
publisher	PLoS journal
publishDate	2022
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16285 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002734
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The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda

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