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Background: Acute diarrhoeal disease among children under 5 years remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In India, diarrhoea attributes to 13% of under-5 mortality. As most diarrhoeal diseases have feco-oral route of transmission, the source of water supply, sanitary measures and personal hygiene are important factors in prevention of same. This study aims to determine various risk factors for diarrhoeal illnesses.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional observational case-control study done among under-5 children hospitalized during rainy months in paediatric ward of tertiary care centre. Information regarding participant's age, sex, immunization status and breast feeding practices collected from the mother or caregiver of the child using a structured questionnaire.Results: Out of 55 cases and 55 controls enrolled, there was no significant difference in birth weight, gender, immunization status, socio economic profile, hygiene practices and sanitation facility between two groups. Statistically significant difference (p 0.01717) was seen in wasting associated with cases and controls however no difference in proportion of stunting was noted. The cases showed early age of start of complimentary feeding (5.86' 1.38m) and less duration of total breast feeding (15.94'4.09m) as compared to controls. Bottle feeding was seen in 69% cases as compared to 53% controls.Conclusions: In socio economically and environmentally similar conditions, faulty feeding is a significant risk factor for diarrhoeal illness in under 5 children. Wasting is also a significant risk factor associated with the same.
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Objective:To analyze different age group elderly’s financial burden and risk due to non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs). Methods:Based on CHARLS baseline investigation data, disease economic burden, disease economic risk for family and disease relative risk are used to analyze the economic risk and economic burden of the different age groups of urban and rural NCDs elderly. Results: The diseases financial burdens of urban NCDs elderly are greater than rural; for diseases family risk and relative risk, NCDs elderly are greater than non-NCDs elderly, urban NCDs elderly are greater than rural, high-age group NCDs elderly are greater than low-age group NCDs elderly. Conclusion: It is needed to improve the NCDs elderly’s medical security ability with basic health insurance, especially to improve medical security ability of the high-age group for rural elderly.
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Objective: To clarify the meaning and definition method of low-income group, summarize the current economic risk of disease for rural low-income group and the risk pooling effect of medical insurance system. Methods: Using literature research method to systematically review the relevant studies of economic risk of disease for low-income group in rural areas. Results: The risk pooling effects of various medical insurance systems are different. Conclusion: On the basis of defining low-income group scientifically, it is necessary to promote the economic risk protection effect of medical security schemes for low-income group in rural area.
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The poor population suffers high disease-related economic risk,while holds weak anti-risk capacity,thus is easy to be in the vicious circle of disease-poorness-disease.For many years,disease-related economic risk of the poor remained unsolved,as a result of insufficient health resource and limited medical security capacity.It concludes that the establishment of a medical security system,with joint sharing of risks in bearing the burden of medical expenses,could be a fundamental solution to the disease-related economic risk of poor population.