Reside, Renato Jr. E.Abel, Jemarson B.Santos, Angelo Gabrielle F.2024-11-052024-11-052013-10https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/860Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is a medicinal wonder developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF in the 1960s, and has ever since been preventing deaths from diarrhea dehydration. Despite the availability of cheap and effective oral rehydration salts, many children still die from diarrhea around the world. In fact, diarrhea still persists to be one of the leading causes of childhood death. The WHO (2000) .promotes the use of ORT to prevent diarrhea-related deaths and encourages the use of surveys in analyzing the setbacks in diarrhea case management through ORT. This paper identifies the factors underlying the use of oral rehydration salts (ORS) for diarrhea case management in the Philippines. The data used in the study is from the 2008 National Demographic and Household Survey. In a sample of 571 children, our study shows that: 1) rural caregivers are significantly less likely to use ORS as diarrhea case management for sick child; 2) children less than a year old are less likely to be provided with ORT compared to older children; 3) socioeconomic and demographic variables do not render significant effects on decision to use ORS.enOral rehydration saltDiarrheaChildhood diarrheaThesis