Title
Sustaining a hygiene education intervention to prevent and control geohelminth infections at schools in the Peruvian Amazon
Date Issued
01 October 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Thériault F.
Blouin B.
Gyorkos T.
McGill University Health Centre, Montreal
Abstract
The World Health Organization currently recommends that school-based deworming programs include health hygiene education as a complementary measure. However, the sustainability and long-term impact of such hygiene education had yet to be assessed. In July 2012, this cross-sectional study was conducted in 18 primary schools in the Peruvian Amazon to gauge continuing adherence to a health hygiene education intervention introduced 2 years earlier to reduce soil-transmitted helminth infections. Due in large part to high teacher turn-over, only 9 of 47 (19.1%) teachers were still implementing the intervention. Health hygiene education interventions must, therefore, be designed to ensure sustainability in order to contribute to the overall effectiveness of school-based deworming programs.
Start page
344
End page
346
Volume
38
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Parasitología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85029562430
PubMed ID
Source
Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health
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