The New England journal of medicine, 2013-04, Vol.368 (17), p.1603-1612
2013
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Health-Education Package to Prevent Worm Infections in Chinese Schoolchildren
- Ist Teil von
- The New England journal of medicine, 2013-04, Vol.368 (17), p.1603-1612
- Ort / Verlag
- Waltham, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2013
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- Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Frei zugängliche E-Journals
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Helminths, such as Ascaris lumbricoides, infect more than a billion people globally. In this cluster-randomized trial in China, a school-based simple educational program was shown to substantially decrease the incidence of these infections in schoolchildren. A third of the global population, mainly in developing countries, is infected with soil-transmitted helminths, which are intestinal parasitic nematode worms. 1 Infection with these parasitic worms is associated with poverty in rural locations, inadequate sanitation and waste disposal, a lack of clean water, and poor hygiene and is common in areas with limited access to health care and preventive measures. 2 Roundworms ( Ascaris lumbricoides ) are the largest and most prevalent soil-transmitted helminths, accounting for 1 billion infections; whipworms ( Trichuris trichiura ) and hookworms ( Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale ) each infect 600 million to 800 million persons. Estimates . . .
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0028-4793eISSN: 1533-4406DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1204885Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1346583491
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- Addictive behaviors, Age, Albendazole, Albendazole - adverse effects, Albendazole - therapeutic use, Anthelmintics - adverse effects, Anthelmintics - therapeutic use, Attitudes, Biological and medical sciences, Cartoons as Topic, Child, Child Behavior, Children, China - epidemiology, Clinical trials, Councils, Disease prevention, Family medical history, Female, General aspects, Hand Disinfection, Health aspects, Health education, Health Education - methods, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Helminthiasis - drug therapy, Helminthiasis - epidemiology, Helminthiasis - prevention & control, Helminths, Humans, Hygiene, Infections, Integrated approach, Intervention, Laboratories, Low income groups, Male, Medical research, Medical sciences, Parasitic diseases, Posters as Topic, Prevalence, Prevention and actions, Public health. Hygiene, Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine, Questionnaires, Rural schools, Sanitation, School Health Services, Schools, Single-Blind Method, Students, Study and teaching, Substance abuse treatment, Surveys and Questionnaires, Tropical diseases, Worms, Intestinal and parasitic