[Historical overview of acute infectious diarrhea in Mexico and future preventive strategies]
Gustavo A Olaiz-Fernández1, Elena Gabriela Gómez-Peña1, Arturo Juárez-Flores1
1Centro de Investigación en Políticas, Población y Salud, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ciudad de México, México.
Objective:
To analyze the epidemiological aspects of AID through Mexican history and the potential strategies to pre- vent AID in Mexican population.
Materials And Methods:
A systematic review was performed exploring the key words, diarrhea, morbidity, mortality, Mexico, health promotion for the last 20 years (1978-2018).
Results:
Over 8 600 articles were obtained; all of them were evaluated to consider those follow the aim of the present work.
Conclusions:
The result of the performed systematic review denoted the influence of AID in Mexican public health policy; the adopted actions diminished the AID's associated risks and allowed future strategies to prevent it; those actions must include hygienic and dietetic measures, pharmaceutical innovations and technological tools applied to health policies.
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