Morocco - 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
2004 45.80

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

The value for Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet) in Morocco was 22.10 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 25 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 44.00 in 1987 and a minimum value of 13.90 in 1992.

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 44.00
1989 14.00
1992 13.90
1995 28.20
2004 22.90
2011 22.10

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Disease prevention