Fewer parents in low-resource nations are living with the fear or tragedy of a child's death from acute diarrhoea as the frequency of these deaths decreases globally each year. In 2015, there were an estimated 526 000 deaths due to diarrhoea in children younger than 5 years, which was a 57% drop from the 1 213 000 estimated deaths in 2000.¹ While we celebrate the dramatic reduction in paediatric deaths, diarrhoea episodes in children are not showing the same vivid decrease. In 1990, in low-income and middle-income nations, there were an estimated 1·9 million diarrhoea episodes compared with an estimated 1·7 million in 2010²—a very modest decrease relative to the reduction in diarrhoea deaths.

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探索腹泻疾病对儿童健康的更广泛影响

在资源匮乏的国家，越来越少的父母生活在因急性腹泻而导致儿童死亡的恐惧或悲剧中，因为全球每年这种死亡的频率在下降。2015年，据估计5岁以下儿童的腹泻死亡人数为526 000，比2000年的1,213 000的估计死亡人数下降了57％^。1虽然我们庆祝儿科死亡人数的急剧减少，但腹泻的发病率却在不断下降。孩子们并没有表现出同样生动的减少。1990年，在低收入和中等收入国家，腹泻发作估计为1·900万，而2010年估计为1·700万^2-与腹泻死亡人数的减少相比，这是非常适度的减少。