- to be able to sensibly discuss different examples of relationship between variations in diet and the prevalence of GIDs. You should be able to give at least two different examples of this relationship;

- to be able to give at least two meaningful examples of how poverty and variations in the wealth of communities influences GIDs and the scale of the problems arising from this;

- give at least two examples of different GIDs arising from two different geographic environments;

- evaluate the main components in the political economics of infantile gastroenteritis, particularly from the perspective of a developing country, and, in particular, specify how transnational commercial interests contribute to this problem;            and