Designing Co-packaging for Zinc & Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) to Influence Caregiver and Provider Behaviours for Treating Childhood Diarrhea in Guatemala

Key Points

• Improving caregiver behavior enhances treatment strategies for childhood diarrhea, aiming for better health outcomes.
• Evidence suggests that co-packaging can increase the likelihood of zinc use alongside oral rehydration salts in caregivers.
• Innovative co-packaging method focuses on the combined usage of zinc and oral rehydration salts to combat dehydration.
• This approach may enable more effective treatment of childhood diarrhea, but further evaluation is necessary.

Abstract