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Journal Article
|Letter

What should be done in acute emergencies?

Van Damme W, Boelaert M, Van Lerberghe W, Harrell-Bond B
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What should be done in acute emergencies? | Journal Article / Letter | MSF Science Portal
Abstract
Davis (Sept 28, p 868)' convincingly challenges the assumption that children under age 5 years can be singled out as the most vulnerable group during acute emergencies and that, as a result, emergency public health interventions can be reduced to a standard package of child survival measures. We have witnessed in refugee camps how such focused strategies channelled a disproportionate share of scarce resources towards inefficient intensive feeding programmes for under-5s, in situations in which drinking water was lacking and diarrhoea rampant. In a highly absurd instance a 5-year-old marasmic child, not belonging to the target group of under-5s, was excluded from supplementary feeding.

Subject Area

displaced populationsmortality

Languages

English
DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(05)65733-9
Published Date
14 Dec 1996
PubMed ID
8962014
Journal
Lancet
Volume | Issue | Pages
Volume 348, Issue 9042, Pages 1663
Issue Date
1996-12-01
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