Mexico - 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
2015 79.90

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

The value for Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet) in Mexico was 61.40 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 80.50 in 1997 and a minimum value of 41.90 in 1993.

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 75.00
1987 72.00
1989 72.00
1993 41.90
1997 80.50
2012 52.30
2015 61.40

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Disease prevention