Helminth control in school-age children: a guide for managers of control programmes -- First edition
First edition
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Please refers to Helminth control in school-age children a guide for managers of control programmes -- Second Edition (2011)
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This book is a guide for planners and programme managers in the health and education sectors who are responsible for implementing community-based programmes for control of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) and schistosome infections in school-age populations.
The book describes a common and cost-effective approach whereby periodic parasitological surveys in a sample of the school population are used to select the appropriate control strategy for the whole community. An alternative approach, which relies on individual diagnosis and treatment, has been used with success in the rapidly evolving economies of Japan and the Republic of Korea, but is not discussed here.
Key elements of guidelines previously published by WHO—Guidelines for the evaluation of soil-transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis at community level (WHO, 1998) and Monitoring helminth control programmes (WHO, 1999c)—are brought together in this book, with a third component on planning and budgeting.
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