A Simple Solution - Teaching Millions to Treat Diarrhoea at Home

A Simple Solution - Teaching Millions to Treat Diarrhoea at Home tells the story of how a medical technology was adapted and presented to a largely illiterate public through house-to-house health education. A small army of dedicated health workers from the BRAC organization carried the science of oral therapy into nearly every home in Bangladesh, despite skepticism from the global public health community. This decade-long program was unprecedented in its intensity and rigor. Constant monitoring and evaluation led to improved implementation at progressively lower unit costs. Readers will find numerous lessons not only for the application of oral rehydration therapy but for the implementation of public health programs worldwide. As Jon E. Rohde of UNICEF notes in his foreword, this is "health history at its best."