El Salvador - Diarrhea treatment

Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 receiving oral rehydration and continued feeding)

Definition: Children with diarrhea who received oral rehydration and continued feeding refer to the percentage of children under age five with diarrhea in the two weeks prior to the survey who received either oral rehydration therapy or increased fluids, with continued feeding.

Source: UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.

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Year Value
2014 72.20

Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet)

The value for Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet) in El Salvador was 69.80 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.80 in 2014 and a minimum value of 15.00 in 1986.

Definition: Percentage of children under age 5 with diarrhea in the two weeks preceding the survey who received oral rehydration salts (ORS packets or pre-packaged ORS fluids).

Source: UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.

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Year Value
1986 15.00
1987 26.00
1989 45.00
1998 46.60
2003 51.40
2008 57.60
2014 69.80

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Disease prevention