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Friedrich_Hayek
Asked about the liberal, non-democratic rule by a Chilean interviewer, Hayek is translated from German to Spanish to English as having said, "As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...] Personally I prefer a liberal dictato...
What did Hayek believe the Chilean government would become in the future?
{ "text": [ "a liberal government" ], "answer_start": [ 529 ] }
572a8b41111d821400f38bd5
Friedrich_Hayek
Asked about the liberal, non-democratic rule by a Chilean interviewer, Hayek is translated from German to Spanish to English as having said, "As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...] Personally I prefer a liberal dictato...
As claimed by Hayek, Chilean citizens had more freedom under which ruler?
{ "text": [ "Pinochet" ], "answer_start": [ 768 ] }
572a8c4c111d821400f38be2
Friedrich_Hayek
For Hayek, the supposedly stark difference between authoritarianism and totalitarianism has much importance and Hayek places heavy weight on this distinction in his defence of transitional dictatorship. For example, when Hayek visited Venezuela in May 1981, he was asked to comment on the prevalence of totalitarian regi...
Hayek believed that authoritarianism was very different from what?
{ "text": [ "totalitarianism" ], "answer_start": [ 72 ] }
572a8c4c111d821400f38be3
Friedrich_Hayek
For Hayek, the supposedly stark difference between authoritarianism and totalitarianism has much importance and Hayek places heavy weight on this distinction in his defence of transitional dictatorship. For example, when Hayek visited Venezuela in May 1981, he was asked to comment on the prevalence of totalitarian regi...
What country did Hayek arrive in where he provided his disctinction between totalitarianism and authoritarianism?
{ "text": [ "Venezuela" ], "answer_start": [ 235 ] }
572a8c4c111d821400f38be4
Friedrich_Hayek
For Hayek, the supposedly stark difference between authoritarianism and totalitarianism has much importance and Hayek places heavy weight on this distinction in his defence of transitional dictatorship. For example, when Hayek visited Venezuela in May 1981, he was asked to comment on the prevalence of totalitarian regi...
What did Hayek believe to be absent from Latin America?
{ "text": [ "totalitarian governments" ], "answer_start": [ 461 ] }
572a8d8e111d821400f38bea
Friedrich_Hayek
In 1932, Hayek suggested that private investment in the public markets was a better road to wealth and economic co-ordination in Britain than government spending programs, as argued in a letter he co-signed with Lionel Robbins and others in an exchange of letters with John Maynard Keynes in The Times. The nearly decade...
What did Hayek claim to be better than investing in government spending programs?
{ "text": [ "private investment in the public markets" ], "answer_start": [ 30 ] }
572a8d8e111d821400f38beb
Friedrich_Hayek
In 1932, Hayek suggested that private investment in the public markets was a better road to wealth and economic co-ordination in Britain than government spending programs, as argued in a letter he co-signed with Lionel Robbins and others in an exchange of letters with John Maynard Keynes in The Times. The nearly decade...
What other notable figure signed the letter in which Hayek made his statement regarding private investment?
{ "text": [ "Lionel Robbins" ], "answer_start": [ 212 ] }
572a8d8e111d821400f38bec
Friedrich_Hayek
In 1932, Hayek suggested that private investment in the public markets was a better road to wealth and economic co-ordination in Britain than government spending programs, as argued in a letter he co-signed with Lionel Robbins and others in an exchange of letters with John Maynard Keynes in The Times. The nearly decade...
Who was responsible for England's return to the use of gold as standard currency?
{ "text": [ "Churchill" ], "answer_start": [ 373 ] }
572a8d8e111d821400f38bed
Friedrich_Hayek
In 1932, Hayek suggested that private investment in the public markets was a better road to wealth and economic co-ordination in Britain than government spending programs, as argued in a letter he co-signed with Lionel Robbins and others in an exchange of letters with John Maynard Keynes in The Times. The nearly decade...
With whom did Hayek disagree with publicly?
{ "text": [ "John Maynard Keynes" ], "answer_start": [ 269 ] }
572ab384be1ee31400cb8197
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek's influence on the development of economics is widely acknowledged. Hayek is the second-most frequently cited economist (after Kenneth Arrow) in the Nobel lectures of the prize winners in economics, which is particularly striking since his own lecture was critical of the field of orthodox economics and neo-classi...
Which economist is cited the most by winners of the Nobel prize in that field?
{ "text": [ "Kenneth Arrow" ], "answer_start": [ 133 ] }
572ab384be1ee31400cb8198
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek's influence on the development of economics is widely acknowledged. Hayek is the second-most frequently cited economist (after Kenneth Arrow) in the Nobel lectures of the prize winners in economics, which is particularly striking since his own lecture was critical of the field of orthodox economics and neo-classi...
What Nobel prize winner has spent most of his life studying Hayek's capital theory despite being critical of the man?
{ "text": [ "Paul Samuelson" ], "answer_start": [ 495 ] }
572ab384be1ee31400cb8199
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek's influence on the development of economics is widely acknowledged. Hayek is the second-most frequently cited economist (after Kenneth Arrow) in the Nobel lectures of the prize winners in economics, which is particularly striking since his own lecture was critical of the field of orthodox economics and neo-classi...
On the topic of the practicality of a socialist economy, who does Samuelson believe was wrong?
{ "text": [ "Joseph Schumpeter" ], "answer_start": [ 1217 ] }
572ab384be1ee31400cb819a
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek's influence on the development of economics is widely acknowledged. Hayek is the second-most frequently cited economist (after Kenneth Arrow) in the Nobel lectures of the prize winners in economics, which is particularly striking since his own lecture was critical of the field of orthodox economics and neo-classi...
On the topic of mainstream economics, whose Nobel lecture was particularly critical?
{ "text": [ "Hayek's" ], "answer_start": [ 738 ] }
572ab384be1ee31400cb819b
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek's influence on the development of economics is widely acknowledged. Hayek is the second-most frequently cited economist (after Kenneth Arrow) in the Nobel lectures of the prize winners in economics, which is particularly striking since his own lecture was critical of the field of orthodox economics and neo-classi...
Which of Hayek's works does Samuelson cite as being incorrect regarding macroeconomics?
{ "text": [ "Prices and Production" ], "answer_start": [ 746 ] }
572ab4d5be1ee31400cb81a1
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek is widely recognised for having introduced the time dimension to the equilibrium construction and for his key role in helping inspire the fields of growth theory, information economics, and the theory of spontaneous order. The "informal" economics presented in Milton Friedman's massively influential popular work ...
Whose 1980 book mentions "informal" economics?
{ "text": [ "Milton Friedman's" ], "answer_start": [ 267 ] }
572ab4d5be1ee31400cb81a2
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek is widely recognised for having introduced the time dimension to the equilibrium construction and for his key role in helping inspire the fields of growth theory, information economics, and the theory of spontaneous order. The "informal" economics presented in Milton Friedman's massively influential popular work ...
What is the name of the book Friedman released in 1980?
{ "text": [ "Free to Choose" ], "answer_start": [ 320 ] }
572ab4d5be1ee31400cb81a3
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek is widely recognised for having introduced the time dimension to the equilibrium construction and for his key role in helping inspire the fields of growth theory, information economics, and the theory of spontaneous order. The "informal" economics presented in Milton Friedman's massively influential popular work ...
How is Friedman's book described in regards to the price system?
{ "text": [ "Hayekian" ], "answer_start": [ 357 ] }
572ab4d5be1ee31400cb81a4
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek is widely recognised for having introduced the time dimension to the equilibrium construction and for his key role in helping inspire the fields of growth theory, information economics, and the theory of spontaneous order. The "informal" economics presented in Milton Friedman's massively influential popular work ...
Which of Hayek's works did Friedman once teach?
{ "text": [ "The Use of Knowledge in Society" ], "answer_start": [ 536 ] }
572ab680111d821400f38ce8
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek had a long-standing and close friendship with philosopher of science Karl Popper, also from Vienna. In a letter to Hayek in 1944, Popper stated, "I think I have learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski." (See Hacohen, 2000). Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutat...
Which fellow Vienna native was Hayek friends with?
{ "text": [ "Karl Popper" ], "answer_start": [ 75 ] }
572ab680111d821400f38ce9
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek had a long-standing and close friendship with philosopher of science Karl Popper, also from Vienna. In a letter to Hayek in 1944, Popper stated, "I think I have learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski." (See Hacohen, 2000). Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutat...
Who is the only exception from whom Hayek claims to have learned more than he did from Popper?
{ "text": [ "Alfred Tarski" ], "answer_start": [ 239 ] }
572ab680111d821400f38cea
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek had a long-standing and close friendship with philosopher of science Karl Popper, also from Vienna. In a letter to Hayek in 1944, Popper stated, "I think I have learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski." (See Hacohen, 2000). Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutat...
Hayek dedicated many of his papers to Popper based on a dedication Popper made to him in which of his work?
{ "text": [ "Conjectures and Refutations" ], "answer_start": [ 297 ] }
572ab680111d821400f38ceb
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek had a long-standing and close friendship with philosopher of science Karl Popper, also from Vienna. In a letter to Hayek in 1944, Popper stated, "I think I have learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski." (See Hacohen, 2000). Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutat...
Which of Popper's works was the first to grasp Hayek's attention?
{ "text": [ "Logik der Forschung" ], "answer_start": [ 487 ] }
572ab680111d821400f38cec
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek had a long-standing and close friendship with philosopher of science Karl Popper, also from Vienna. In a letter to Hayek in 1944, Popper stated, "I think I have learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski." (See Hacohen, 2000). Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutat...
Popper was present for which notable Mont Pelerin Society event?
{ "text": [ "the inaugural meeting" ], "answer_start": [ 630 ] }
572ab7babe1ee31400cb81d5
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek's greatest intellectual debt was to Carl Menger, who pioneered an approach to social explanation similar to that developed in Britain by Bernard Mandeville and the Scottish moral philosophers in the Scottish Enlightenment. He had a wide-reaching influence on contemporary economics, politics, philosophy, sociology...
Which of Hayek's books had an impact on those against postmodernism?
{ "text": [ "The Road to Serfdom" ], "answer_start": [ 386 ] }
572ab7babe1ee31400cb81d6
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek's greatest intellectual debt was to Carl Menger, who pioneered an approach to social explanation similar to that developed in Britain by Bernard Mandeville and the Scottish moral philosophers in the Scottish Enlightenment. He had a wide-reaching influence on contemporary economics, politics, philosophy, sociology...
To whom did Hayek owe his intellectual success?
{ "text": [ "Carl Menger" ], "answer_start": [ 42 ] }
572ab7babe1ee31400cb81d7
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek's greatest intellectual debt was to Carl Menger, who pioneered an approach to social explanation similar to that developed in Britain by Bernard Mandeville and the Scottish moral philosophers in the Scottish Enlightenment. He had a wide-reaching influence on contemporary economics, politics, philosophy, sociology...
Carl Menger's work in social explanation was not too different from those in which Scottish period??
{ "text": [ "Scottish Enlightenment" ], "answer_start": [ 205 ] }
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Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek received new attention in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of conservative governments in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. After winning the United Kingdom general election, 1979, Margaret Thatcher appointed Keith Joseph, the director of the Hayekian Centre for Policy Studies, as her secretary of s...
In what year was Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister?
{ "text": [ "1979" ], "answer_start": [ 195 ] }
572ab905f75d5e190021fc6f
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek received new attention in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of conservative governments in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. After winning the United Kingdom general election, 1979, Margaret Thatcher appointed Keith Joseph, the director of the Hayekian Centre for Policy Studies, as her secretary of s...
Whom did the Prime Minister of England choose as secretary of state?
{ "text": [ "Keith Joseph" ], "answer_start": [ 229 ] }
572ab905f75d5e190021fc70
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek received new attention in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of conservative governments in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. After winning the United Kingdom general election, 1979, Margaret Thatcher appointed Keith Joseph, the director of the Hayekian Centre for Policy Studies, as her secretary of s...
During the 80s and 90s, three major English speaking nations experienced a political shift to to what?
{ "text": [ "conservative governments" ], "answer_start": [ 69 ] }
572ab905f75d5e190021fc71
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek received new attention in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of conservative governments in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. After winning the United Kingdom general election, 1979, Margaret Thatcher appointed Keith Joseph, the director of the Hayekian Centre for Policy Studies, as her secretary of s...
What position did the British Prime Minister's secretary of state previously hold?
{ "text": [ "director of the Hayekian Centre for Policy Studies" ], "answer_start": [ 247 ] }
572ab905f75d5e190021fc72
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek received new attention in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of conservative governments in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. After winning the United Kingdom general election, 1979, Margaret Thatcher appointed Keith Joseph, the director of the Hayekian Centre for Policy Studies, as her secretary of s...
One of Hayek's supporters served which US president?
{ "text": [ "Ronald Reagan's" ], "answer_start": [ 423 ] }
572aba88111d821400f38d00
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek wrote an essay, "Why I Am Not a Conservative" (included as an appendix to The Constitution of Liberty), in which he disparaged conservatism for its inability to adapt to changing human realities or to offer a positive political program, remarking, "Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves." Although he n...
What ideology did Hayek not agree with in an essay appended to The Constitution of Liberty?
{ "text": [ "conservatism" ], "answer_start": [ 133 ] }
572aba88111d821400f38d01
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek wrote an essay, "Why I Am Not a Conservative" (included as an appendix to The Constitution of Liberty), in which he disparaged conservatism for its inability to adapt to changing human realities or to offer a positive political program, remarking, "Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves." Although he n...
What was Hayek's statement regarding conservatism?
{ "text": [ "\"Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 254 ] }
572aba88111d821400f38d02
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek wrote an essay, "Why I Am Not a Conservative" (included as an appendix to The Constitution of Liberty), in which he disparaged conservatism for its inability to adapt to changing human realities or to offer a positive political program, remarking, "Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves." Although he n...
What does conservatism have in common with classical liberalism?
{ "text": [ "belief in the free market" ], "answer_start": [ 428 ] }
572aba88111d821400f38d03
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek wrote an essay, "Why I Am Not a Conservative" (included as an appendix to The Constitution of Liberty), in which he disparaged conservatism for its inability to adapt to changing human realities or to offer a positive political program, remarking, "Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves." Although he n...
What word is used in the United States to identify Hayek's ideology?
{ "text": [ "libertarian" ], "answer_start": [ 773 ] }
572aba88111d821400f38d04
Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek wrote an essay, "Why I Am Not a Conservative" (included as an appendix to The Constitution of Liberty), in which he disparaged conservatism for its inability to adapt to changing human realities or to offer a positive political program, remarking, "Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves." Although he n...
Which ideology did Hayek believe conservatism discouraged?
{ "text": [ "internationalism" ], "answer_start": [ 877 ] }
572abb9a34ae481900deac87
Friedrich_Hayek
However, for his part, Hayek found this term "singularly unattractive" and offered the term "Old Whig" (a phrase borrowed from Edmund Burke) instead. In his later life, he said, "I am becoming a Burkean Whig." However, Whiggery as a political doctrine had little affinity for classical political economy, the tabernacle ...
What did Hayek suggest as an alternative to being called a libertarian?
{ "text": [ "Old Whig" ], "answer_start": [ 93 ] }
572abb9a34ae481900deac88
Friedrich_Hayek
However, for his part, Hayek found this term "singularly unattractive" and offered the term "Old Whig" (a phrase borrowed from Edmund Burke) instead. In his later life, he said, "I am becoming a Burkean Whig." However, Whiggery as a political doctrine had little affinity for classical political economy, the tabernacle ...
In opposition to conservatives, what group has Hayek's work influenced?
{ "text": [ "liberal-minded economists" ], "answer_start": [ 416 ] }
572abb9a34ae481900deac89
Friedrich_Hayek
However, for his part, Hayek found this term "singularly unattractive" and offered the term "Old Whig" (a phrase borrowed from Edmund Burke) instead. In his later life, he said, "I am becoming a Burkean Whig." However, Whiggery as a political doctrine had little affinity for classical political economy, the tabernacle ...
Who wrote an essay as a result of Hayek's "Why I Am Not a Conservative"?
{ "text": [ "James M. Buchanan" ], "answer_start": [ 516 ] }
572abb9a34ae481900deac8a
Friedrich_Hayek
However, for his part, Hayek found this term "singularly unattractive" and offered the term "Old Whig" (a phrase borrowed from Edmund Burke) instead. In his later life, he said, "I am becoming a Burkean Whig." However, Whiggery as a political doctrine had little affinity for classical political economy, the tabernacle ...
From whom did Hayek acquire the term he proposed as an alternative to libertarian?
{ "text": [ "Edmund Burke" ], "answer_start": [ 127 ] }
572abb9a34ae481900deac8b
Friedrich_Hayek
However, for his part, Hayek found this term "singularly unattractive" and offered the term "Old Whig" (a phrase borrowed from Edmund Burke) instead. In his later life, he said, "I am becoming a Burkean Whig." However, Whiggery as a political doctrine had little affinity for classical political economy, the tabernacle ...
In his later years, what term did Hayek use to describe himself?
{ "text": [ "a Burkean Whig" ], "answer_start": [ 193 ] }
572abd0734ae481900deaca3
Friedrich_Hayek
His opponents have attacked Hayek as a leading promoter of "neoliberalism". A British scholar, Samuel Brittan, concluded in 2010, "Hayek's book [The Constitution of Liberty] is still probably the most comprehensive statement of the underlying ideas of the moderate free market philosophy espoused by neoliberals." Britta...
What term do those who disagree with Hayek use to describe his ideals?
{ "text": [ "neoliberalism" ], "answer_start": [ 60 ] }
572abd0734ae481900deaca4
Friedrich_Hayek
His opponents have attacked Hayek as a leading promoter of "neoliberalism". A British scholar, Samuel Brittan, concluded in 2010, "Hayek's book [The Constitution of Liberty] is still probably the most comprehensive statement of the underlying ideas of the moderate free market philosophy espoused by neoliberals." Britta...
Who was it that claimed Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty to be an thorough example of neoliberal philosophy?
{ "text": [ "Samuel Brittan" ], "answer_start": [ 95 ] }
572abd0734ae481900deaca5
Friedrich_Hayek
His opponents have attacked Hayek as a leading promoter of "neoliberalism". A British scholar, Samuel Brittan, concluded in 2010, "Hayek's book [The Constitution of Liberty] is still probably the most comprehensive statement of the underlying ideas of the moderate free market philosophy espoused by neoliberals." Britta...
Whose ideals does Brittan believe to win out over Hayek's?
{ "text": [ "Raymond Plant" ], "answer_start": [ 341 ] }
572abec0be1ee31400cb81ff
Friedrich_Hayek
In Why F A Hayek is a Conservative, British policy analyst Madsen Pirie claims Hayek mistakes the nature of the conservative outlook. Conservatives, he says, are not averse to change – but like Hayek, they are highly averse to change being imposed on the social order by people in authority who think they know how to ru...
Who makes the claim that Hayek was actually a conservative?
{ "text": [ "Madsen Pirie" ], "answer_start": [ 59 ] }
572abec0be1ee31400cb8201
Friedrich_Hayek
In Why F A Hayek is a Conservative, British policy analyst Madsen Pirie claims Hayek mistakes the nature of the conservative outlook. Conservatives, he says, are not averse to change – but like Hayek, they are highly averse to change being imposed on the social order by people in authority who think they know how to ru...
Pirie believes Hayek to be a conservative for what reason?
{ "text": [ "mistakes the nature of the conservative outlook" ], "answer_start": [ 85 ] }
572abec0be1ee31400cb8202
Friedrich_Hayek
In Why F A Hayek is a Conservative, British policy analyst Madsen Pirie claims Hayek mistakes the nature of the conservative outlook. Conservatives, he says, are not averse to change – but like Hayek, they are highly averse to change being imposed on the social order by people in authority who think they know how to ru...
What does Pirie claim conservatives want for the free market?
{ "text": [ "to function smoothly" ], "answer_start": [ 367 ] }
572a3fbf3f37b3190047881c
Diarrhea
Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day. It often lasts for a few days and can result in dehydration due to fluid loss. Signs of dehydration often begin with loss of the normal stretchiness of the skin and irritable behaviour. This can progres...
What is one of the effects of diarrhea?
{ "text": [ "can result in dehydration due to fluid loss" ], "answer_start": [ 152 ] }
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Diarrhea
The most common cause is an infection of the intestines due to either a virus, bacteria, or parasite; a condition known as gastroenteritis. These infections are often acquired from food or water that has been contaminated by stool, or directly from another person who is infected. It may be divided into three types: sho...
What is the most common cause of diarrhea?
{ "text": [ "an infection of the intestines" ], "answer_start": [ 25 ] }
572a446f1d046914007798b6
Diarrhea
The most common cause is an infection of the intestines due to either a virus, bacteria, or parasite; a condition known as gastroenteritis. These infections are often acquired from food or water that has been contaminated by stool, or directly from another person who is infected. It may be divided into three types: sho...
What can cause an infection in the intestines?
{ "text": [ "a virus, bacteria, or parasite" ], "answer_start": [ 70 ] }
572a446f1d046914007798b8
Diarrhea
The most common cause is an infection of the intestines due to either a virus, bacteria, or parasite; a condition known as gastroenteritis. These infections are often acquired from food or water that has been contaminated by stool, or directly from another person who is infected. It may be divided into three types: sho...
What is it known as if blood is present?
{ "text": [ "dysentery" ], "answer_start": [ 603 ] }
572a46351d046914007798bd
Diarrhea
Prevention of infectious diarrhea is by improved sanitation, clean drinking water, and hand washing with soap. Breastfeeding for at least six months is also recommended as is vaccination against rotavirus. Oral rehydration solution (ORS), which is clean water with modest amounts of salts and sugar, is the treatment of ...
What are some ways to prevent diarrhea?
{ "text": [ "improved sanitation, clean drinking water, and hand washing with soap" ], "answer_start": [ 40 ] }
572a46351d046914007798be
Diarrhea
Prevention of infectious diarrhea is by improved sanitation, clean drinking water, and hand washing with soap. Breastfeeding for at least six months is also recommended as is vaccination against rotavirus. Oral rehydration solution (ORS), which is clean water with modest amounts of salts and sugar, is the treatment of ...
What else can a mom do to prevent diarrhea for her baby?
{ "text": [ "Breastfeeding for at least six months" ], "answer_start": [ 111 ] }
572a49623f37b31900478869
Diarrhea
About 1.7 to 5 billion cases of diarrhea occur per year. It is most common in developing countries, where young children get diarrhea on average three times a year. Total deaths from diarrhea are estimated at 1.26 million in 2013 – down from 2.58 million in 1990. In 2012, it is the second most common cause of deaths in...
HOw many cases of diarrhea are there a year?
{ "text": [ "1.7 to 5 billion cases" ], "answer_start": [ 6 ] }
572a49623f37b3190047886a
Diarrhea
About 1.7 to 5 billion cases of diarrhea occur per year. It is most common in developing countries, where young children get diarrhea on average three times a year. Total deaths from diarrhea are estimated at 1.26 million in 2013 – down from 2.58 million in 1990. In 2012, it is the second most common cause of deaths in...
How often do kids get diarrhea in developing countries?
{ "text": [ "average three times a year" ], "answer_start": [ 137 ] }
572a49623f37b3190047886b
Diarrhea
About 1.7 to 5 billion cases of diarrhea occur per year. It is most common in developing countries, where young children get diarrhea on average three times a year. Total deaths from diarrhea are estimated at 1.26 million in 2013 – down from 2.58 million in 1990. In 2012, it is the second most common cause of deaths in...
Frequent episodes of diarrhea are common in what type of cases?
{ "text": [ "malnutrition" ], "answer_start": [ 428 ] }
572a49623f37b3190047886c
Diarrhea
About 1.7 to 5 billion cases of diarrhea occur per year. It is most common in developing countries, where young children get diarrhea on average three times a year. Total deaths from diarrhea are estimated at 1.26 million in 2013 – down from 2.58 million in 1990. In 2012, it is the second most common cause of deaths in...
What long term issues can arise from frequent diarrhea?
{ "text": [ "stunted growth and poor intellectual development" ], "answer_start": [ 557 ] }
572a4e22fed8de19000d5b8b
Diarrhea
Secretory diarrhea means that there is an increase in the active secretion, or there is an inhibition of absorption. There is little to no structural damage. The most common cause of this type of diarrhea is a cholera toxin that stimulates the secretion of anions, especially chloride ions. Therefore, to maintain a char...
Is there any structural damage associated with secretory diarrhea?
{ "text": [ ". There is little to no structural damage." ], "answer_start": [ 115 ] }
572a50757a1753140016ae9e
Diarrhea
Osmotic diarrhea occurs when too much water is drawn into the bowels. If a person drinks solutions with excessive sugar or excessive salt, these can draw water from the body into the bowel and cause osmotic diarrhea. Osmotic diarrhea can also be the result of maldigestion (e.g., pancreatic disease or Coeliac disease), ...
What occures with osmotic diarrhea?
{ "text": [ "s when too much water is drawn into the bowels" ], "answer_start": [ 22 ] }
572a50757a1753140016aea0
Diarrhea
Osmotic diarrhea occurs when too much water is drawn into the bowels. If a person drinks solutions with excessive sugar or excessive salt, these can draw water from the body into the bowel and cause osmotic diarrhea. Osmotic diarrhea can also be the result of maldigestion (e.g., pancreatic disease or Coeliac disease), ...
How do osmotic lazatives work?
{ "text": [ "alleviate constipation by drawing water into the bowels" ], "answer_start": [ 439 ] }
572a50757a1753140016aea1
Diarrhea
Osmotic diarrhea occurs when too much water is drawn into the bowels. If a person drinks solutions with excessive sugar or excessive salt, these can draw water from the body into the bowel and cause osmotic diarrhea. Osmotic diarrhea can also be the result of maldigestion (e.g., pancreatic disease or Coeliac disease), ...
What can cause osmotic diarrhea in healthy people?
{ "text": [ "too much magnesium or vitamin C or undigested lactose" ], "answer_start": [ 521 ] }
572a51a3b8ce0319002e2a9d
Diarrhea
Inflammatory diarrhea occurs when there is damage to the mucosal lining or brush border, which leads to a passive loss of protein-rich fluids and a decreased ability to absorb these lost fluids. Features of all three of the other types of diarrhea[clarification needed] can be found in this type of diarrhea. It can be c...
What can cause inflammatory diarrhea?
{ "text": [ "bacterial infections, viral infections, parasitic infections, or autoimmune problems" ], "answer_start": [ 329 ] }
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Diarrhea
Inflammatory diarrhea occurs when there is damage to the mucosal lining or brush border, which leads to a passive loss of protein-rich fluids and a decreased ability to absorb these lost fluids. Features of all three of the other types of diarrhea[clarification needed] can be found in this type of diarrhea. It can be c...
What other causes are there for inflammatory diarrhea?
{ "text": [ "tuberculosis, colon cancer, and enteritis." ], "answer_start": [ 476 ] }
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Diarrhea
Diarrheal disease may have a negative impact on both physical fitness and mental development. "Early childhood malnutrition resulting from any cause reduces physical fitness and work productivity in adults," and diarrhea is a primary cause of childhood malnutrition. Further, evidence suggests that diarrheal disease has...
Diarrheal disease has what effects on a person?
{ "text": [ "a negative impact on both physical fitness and mental development" ], "answer_start": [ 27 ] }
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Diarrhea
Diarrheal disease may have a negative impact on both physical fitness and mental development. "Early childhood malnutrition resulting from any cause reduces physical fitness and work productivity in adults," and diarrhea is a primary cause of childhood malnutrition. Further, evidence suggests that diarrheal disease has...
What can early childhood malnutrition cause?
{ "text": [ "reduces physical fitness and work productivity in adults" ], "answer_start": [ 149 ] }
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Diarrhea
Diarrheal disease may have a negative impact on both physical fitness and mental development. "Early childhood malnutrition resulting from any cause reduces physical fitness and work productivity in adults," and diarrhea is a primary cause of childhood malnutrition. Further, evidence suggests that diarrheal disease has...
What is the cause of childhood malnutrition?
{ "text": [ "diarrhea" ], "answer_start": [ 212 ] }
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Diarrhea
Diarrheal disease may have a negative impact on both physical fitness and mental development. "Early childhood malnutrition resulting from any cause reduces physical fitness and work productivity in adults," and diarrhea is a primary cause of childhood malnutrition. Further, evidence suggests that diarrheal disease has...
Children who have experienced sever diarrhea are more likely to have what effect?
{ "text": [ "significantly lower scores on a series of tests of intelligence" ], "answer_start": [ 518 ] }
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Diarrhea
Another possible cause of diarrhea is irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which usually presents with abdominal discomfort relieved by defecation and unusual stool (diarrhea or constipation) for at least 3 days a week over the previous 3 months. Symptoms of diarrhea-predominant IBS can be managed through a combination of d...
What is IBS?
{ "text": [ "irritable bowel syndrome" ], "answer_start": [ 38 ] }
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Diarrhea
Another possible cause of diarrhea is irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which usually presents with abdominal discomfort relieved by defecation and unusual stool (diarrhea or constipation) for at least 3 days a week over the previous 3 months. Symptoms of diarrhea-predominant IBS can be managed through a combination of d...
How can symptoms be managed with IBS?
{ "text": [ "a combination of dietary changes, soluble fiber supplements, and/or medications" ], "answer_start": [ 302 ] }
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Diarrhea
Poverty is a good indicator of the rate of infectious diarrhea in a population. This association does not stem from poverty itself, but rather from the conditions under which impoverished people live. The absence of certain resources compromises the ability of the poor to defend themselves against infectious diarrhea. ...
What is a good indicator of the rate of infectious diarrhea?
{ "text": [ "Poverty" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
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Diarrhea
Poverty is a good indicator of the rate of infectious diarrhea in a population. This association does not stem from poverty itself, but rather from the conditions under which impoverished people live. The absence of certain resources compromises the ability of the poor to defend themselves against infectious diarrhea. ...
Why does living in poverty raise your risk of diarrhea?
{ "text": [ "from the conditions under which impoverished people live" ], "answer_start": [ 143 ] }
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Diarrhea
Poverty is a good indicator of the rate of infectious diarrhea in a population. This association does not stem from poverty itself, but rather from the conditions under which impoverished people live. The absence of certain resources compromises the ability of the poor to defend themselves against infectious diarrhea. ...
What causes this to be exacerbated?
{ "text": [ "the lack of adequate, available, and affordable medical care." ], "answer_start": [ 840 ] }
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Diarrhea
Proper nutrition is important for health and functioning, including the prevention of infectious diarrhea. It is especially important to young children who do not have a fully developed immune system. Zinc deficiency, a condition often found in children in developing countries can, even in mild cases, have a significan...
Why is proper nutrition important?
{ "text": [ "for health and functioning, including the prevention of infectious diarrhea" ], "answer_start": [ 30 ] }
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Diarrhea
Proper nutrition is important for health and functioning, including the prevention of infectious diarrhea. It is especially important to young children who do not have a fully developed immune system. Zinc deficiency, a condition often found in children in developing countries can, even in mild cases, have a significan...
What can having a vitamin A deficiency cause?
{ "text": [ "cause an increase in the severity of diarrheal episodes" ], "answer_start": [ 717 ] }
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Diarrhea
Proper nutrition is important for health and functioning, including the prevention of infectious diarrhea. It is especially important to young children who do not have a fully developed immune system. Zinc deficiency, a condition often found in children in developing countries can, even in mild cases, have a significan...
What is the rate of vitamin A deficiency in children worldwide?
{ "text": [ "127 million" ], "answer_start": [ 1082 ] }
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Diarrhea
According to two researchers, Nesse and Williams, diarrhea may function as an evolved expulsion defense mechanism. As a result, if it is stopped, there might be a delay in recovery. They cite in support of this argument research published in 1973 that found that treating Shigella with the anti-diarrhea drug (Co-phenotr...
What did Nesse and Williams learn?
{ "text": [ "diarrhea may function as an evolved expulsion defense mechanism" ], "answer_start": [ 50 ] }
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Diarrhea
According to two researchers, Nesse and Williams, diarrhea may function as an evolved expulsion defense mechanism. As a result, if it is stopped, there might be a delay in recovery. They cite in support of this argument research published in 1973 that found that treating Shigella with the anti-diarrhea drug (Co-phenotr...
If diarrhea is stopped, would could happen?
{ "text": [ "there might be a delay in recovery." ], "answer_start": [ 146 ] }
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Diarrhea
Basic sanitation techniques can have a profound effect on the transmission of diarrheal disease. The implementation of hand washing using soap and water, for example, has been experimentally shown to reduce the incidence of disease by approximately 42–48%. Hand washing in developing countries, however, is compromised b...
What has had major effects on the transmission of diarrheal diseases?
{ "text": [ "Basic sanitation techniques" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
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Diarrhea
Basic sanitation techniques can have a profound effect on the transmission of diarrheal disease. The implementation of hand washing using soap and water, for example, has been experimentally shown to reduce the incidence of disease by approximately 42–48%. Hand washing in developing countries, however, is compromised b...
How much does hand washing reduce the chances of disease?
{ "text": [ "approximately 42–48%" ], "answer_start": [ 235 ] }
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Diarrhea
Basic sanitation techniques can have a profound effect on the transmission of diarrheal disease. The implementation of hand washing using soap and water, for example, has been experimentally shown to reduce the incidence of disease by approximately 42–48%. Hand washing in developing countries, however, is compromised b...
Why do developing countries not wash their hands as much as other countries?
{ "text": [ "access to soap and water is limited" ], "answer_start": [ 441 ] }
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Diarrhea
Basic sanitation techniques can have a profound effect on the transmission of diarrheal disease. The implementation of hand washing using soap and water, for example, has been experimentally shown to reduce the incidence of disease by approximately 42–48%. Hand washing in developing countries, however, is compromised b...
What is a solution to help this problem?
{ "text": [ "implementation of educational programs that encourage sanitary behaviours" ], "answer_start": [ 650 ] }
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Diarrhea
Given that water contamination is a major means of transmitting diarrheal disease, efforts to provide clean water supply and improved sanitation have the potential to dramatically cut the rate of disease incidence. In fact, it has been proposed that we might expect an 88% reduction in child mortality resulting from dia...
What is a major means of the spread of diarrhea disease?
{ "text": [ "water contamination" ], "answer_start": [ 11 ] }
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Diarrhea
Given that water contamination is a major means of transmitting diarrheal disease, efforts to provide clean water supply and improved sanitation have the potential to dramatically cut the rate of disease incidence. In fact, it has been proposed that we might expect an 88% reduction in child mortality resulting from dia...
What has cut the rate of diarrhea disease incidents?
{ "text": [ "clean water supply and improved sanitation" ], "answer_start": [ 102 ] }
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Diarrhea
Given that water contamination is a major means of transmitting diarrheal disease, efforts to provide clean water supply and improved sanitation have the potential to dramatically cut the rate of disease incidence. In fact, it has been proposed that we might expect an 88% reduction in child mortality resulting from dia...
What would be the reduction in deisease incedence if there was better water and sanitation?
{ "text": [ "22–27% reduction in disease incidence" ], "answer_start": [ 485 ] }
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Diarrhea
Immunization against the pathogens that cause diarrheal disease is a viable prevention strategy, however it does require targeting certain pathogens for vaccination. In the case of Rotavirus, which was responsible for around 6% of diarrheal episodes and 20% of diarrheal disease deaths in the children of developing coun...
What is the downfall of using immunization against the pathogens that cause disease?
{ "text": [ "it does require targeting certain pathogens for vaccination" ], "answer_start": [ 105 ] }
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Diarrhea
Immunization against the pathogens that cause diarrheal disease is a viable prevention strategy, however it does require targeting certain pathogens for vaccination. In the case of Rotavirus, which was responsible for around 6% of diarrheal episodes and 20% of diarrheal disease deaths in the children of developing coun...
What is responsible for 6% of dearrheal disease?
{ "text": [ "Rotavirus" ], "answer_start": [ 181 ] }
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Diarrhea
Immunization against the pathogens that cause diarrheal disease is a viable prevention strategy, however it does require targeting certain pathogens for vaccination. In the case of Rotavirus, which was responsible for around 6% of diarrheal episodes and 20% of diarrheal disease deaths in the children of developing coun...
What percent is the rotavirus responsible for in diarrheal disease deaths?
{ "text": [ "20%" ], "answer_start": [ 254 ] }
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Diarrhea
Immunization against the pathogens that cause diarrheal disease is a viable prevention strategy, however it does require targeting certain pathogens for vaccination. In the case of Rotavirus, which was responsible for around 6% of diarrheal episodes and 20% of diarrheal disease deaths in the children of developing coun...
What was the effect of the Rotavirus vaccine?
{ "text": [ "(2-3%) decrease in total diarrheal disease incidence" ], "answer_start": [ 389 ] }
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Diarrhea
Immunization against the pathogens that cause diarrheal disease is a viable prevention strategy, however it does require targeting certain pathogens for vaccination. In the case of Rotavirus, which was responsible for around 6% of diarrheal episodes and 20% of diarrheal disease deaths in the children of developing coun...
What year was the Rotovirus vaccine used?
{ "text": [ "1985" ], "answer_start": [ 367 ] }
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Diarrhea
Dietary deficiencies in developing countries can be combated by promoting better eating practices. Supplementation with vitamin A and/or zinc. Zinc supplementation proved successful showing a significant decrease in the incidence of diarrheal disease compared to a control group. The majority of the literature suggests ...
What can be done to combate dietary deficiences?
{ "text": [ "promoting better eating practices" ], "answer_start": [ 64 ] }
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Diarrhea
Dietary deficiencies in developing countries can be combated by promoting better eating practices. Supplementation with vitamin A and/or zinc. Zinc supplementation proved successful showing a significant decrease in the incidence of diarrheal disease compared to a control group. The majority of the literature suggests ...
What has been used and shown successful in a decrease in incidence of diarrheal disease?
{ "text": [ "Zinc" ], "answer_start": [ 143 ] }
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Diarrhea
Dietary deficiencies in developing countries can be combated by promoting better eating practices. Supplementation with vitamin A and/or zinc. Zinc supplementation proved successful showing a significant decrease in the incidence of diarrheal disease compared to a control group. The majority of the literature suggests ...
WHat strategy was found out to be more cost effective?
{ "text": [ "zinc supplementation" ], "answer_start": [ 592 ] }
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Diarrhea
In many cases of diarrhea, replacing lost fluid and salts is the only treatment needed. This is usually by mouth – oral rehydration therapy – or, in severe cases, intravenously. Diet restrictions such as the BRAT diet are no longer recommended. Research does not support the limiting of milk to children as doing so has ...
What is the basic treatment many cases of diarrhea need?
{ "text": [ "replacing lost fluid and salts is the only treatment needed" ], "answer_start": [ 27 ] }
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Diarrhea
In many cases of diarrhea, replacing lost fluid and salts is the only treatment needed. This is usually by mouth – oral rehydration therapy – or, in severe cases, intravenously. Diet restrictions such as the BRAT diet are no longer recommended. Research does not support the limiting of milk to children as doing so has ...
What type of diet is no longer recommended?
{ "text": [ "BRAT diet" ], "answer_start": [ 208 ] }
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Diarrhea
Oral rehydration solution (ORS) (a slightly sweetened and salty water) can be used to prevent dehydration. Standard home solutions such as salted rice water, salted yogurt drinks, vegetable and chicken soups with salt can be given. Home solutions such as water in which cereal has been cooked, unsalted soup, green cocon...
What can be used to prevent dehydration?
{ "text": [ "Oral rehydration solution (ORS)" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
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Diarrhea
Oral rehydration solution (ORS) (a slightly sweetened and salty water) can be used to prevent dehydration. Standard home solutions such as salted rice water, salted yogurt drinks, vegetable and chicken soups with salt can be given. Home solutions such as water in which cereal has been cooked, unsalted soup, green cocon...
What is a commercial solution that can also be used?
{ "text": [ "Pedialyte" ], "answer_start": [ 596 ] }
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Diarrhea
Drinks especially high in simple sugars, such as soft drinks and fruit juices, are not recommended in children under 5 years of age as they may increase dehydration. A too rich solution in the gut draws water from the rest of the body, just as if the person were to drink sea water. Plain water may be used if more speci...
What can be used to give fluids when they can not drink?
{ "text": [ "A nasogastric tube" ], "answer_start": [ 588 ] }
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Diarrhea
WHO recommends a child with diarrhea continue to be fed. Continued feeding speeds the recovery of normal intestinal function. In contrast, children whose food is restricted have diarrhea of longer duration and recover intestinal function more slowly. A child should also continue to be breastfed. The WHO states "Food sh...
What does WHO recommend?
{ "text": [ "a child with diarrhea continue to be fed" ], "answer_start": [ 15 ] }
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Diarrhea
WHO recommends a child with diarrhea continue to be fed. Continued feeding speeds the recovery of normal intestinal function. In contrast, children whose food is restricted have diarrhea of longer duration and recover intestinal function more slowly. A child should also continue to be breastfed. The WHO states "Food sh...
What does continuing to eat do for your illness?
{ "text": [ "Continued feeding speeds the recovery of normal intestinal function" ], "answer_start": [ 57 ] }
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Diarrhea
While antibiotics are beneficial in certain types of acute diarrhea, they are usually not used except in specific situations. There are concerns that antibiotics may increase the risk of hemolytic uremic syndrome in people infected with Escherichia coli O157:H7. In resource-poor countries, treatment with antibiotics ma...
Are antibiotics used in diarrhea instances?
{ "text": [ "they are usually not used except in specific situations" ], "answer_start": [ 69 ] }