Helminth Control in School-Age Children: A Guide for Managers of Control Programmes

World Health Organization

ISBN 10: 9241545569 ISBN 13: 9789241545563

Publisher: World Health Organization, 2002

Synopsis

This publication is a guide for planners and programme managers in the health and education system who are charged with implementing community-based programmes for control of soil-transmitted helminth and schistosome infections in school-age children. Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth infections cause more than 150,000 deaths each year. In school-age populations in developing countries, intestinal helminth infections rank first among the causes of all communicable and noncommunicable diseases. This book describes an approach to the control of infections that is based on the periodic treatment of school-age children - a particularly high-risk group. Parasitological surveys of school population samples, allied to treatment programmes, can then be used as a basis for selecting an appropriate control strategy for the whole community.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Health Organization
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9241545569
• ISBN 13: 9789241545563
• Binding: Staple Bound
• Number of pages: 81