Gastrointestinal Aspects of Malnutrition in Children

Michael Gracey (Gastroenterology and Nutrition Research Unit, Princess Margaret Children's Medical Research Foundation and Department of Child Health University of Western Australia Perth, Western Australia)

Paediatrica Indonesiana
Vol 28 No 3-4 (1988): March - April 1988

Throughout history mankind has suffered many scourges. In many parts of the world improvements in living standards, hygiene, nutrition, medical care and preventive public health programmes have made many of these infectious , diseases things of the past. However, in the so called "developing" countries, diarrhoeal diseases of infancy and childhood are still major problems which cause many millions of deaths each year (Mata, 1985).