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• Title: Predicting Treatment Cost for Bacterial Diarrhoea at a Regional Hospital in Thailand (Report)
• Author : Journal of Health Population and Nutrition
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 238 KB

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INTRODUCTION Thailand is a Southeast Asian country with a population of 62.4 million in 2005. Acute diarrhoea is one of the most prevalent diseases in Thailand, and morbidity rate pertaining to this disease has been ranked the highest in the country since 1985. Results of an epidemiological study in four hospitals in 2005 indicated that most diarrhoea patients were children aged less than five years (35.2%). Salmonella spp. (39.9%), Vibrio parahaemolyticus (33.1%), Escherichia coli (18.0%), Shigella spp. (2.5%), and Vibrio cholerae El Tor Inaba (1.8%) were mainly responsible for the disease (1). The number of inpatients at government hospitals (80.5% of the total hospital-beds in the country in 2004) was 11,323.8 per 100,000 in 2004. Meanwhile, the numbers of inpatients suffering from typhoid, paratyphoid fever, and other Salmonella-associated infections, including other intestinal infectious diseases, was 629.7 per 100,000 people. Ninety-six deaths due to acute diarrhoea and enteric fever were reported in 2004 (2). This study was conducted as part of the project titled "Institutional cost of shigellosis in Kaengkhoi district, Saraburi province, Thailand." The project is a part of the multi-country programme sponsored by the International Vaccine Institute, South Korea. Therefore, we would like to focus on bacterial diarrhoea to compare with shigellosis.

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