 Health education and community participation in mass drug administration for malaria in NicaraguaRichard M. Garfield and Sten H. Vermund Social Science & Medicine, 1986, vol. 22, issue 8, 869-877 Abstract: A malaria control effort in Nicaragua involving the mass, short-term distribution of anti-malaria medicines to a target population of all citizens above one year of age is detailed. About 70% of the population recieved anti-malarials in November, 1981 and 8 million packets of chloroquine and primaquine were distributed by 70,000 health campaign workers and their assistants. Training and mobilization efforts used volunteers from local community organizations. Mass public education was a key focus in the weeks before drug administration. The effects of the campaign were immediately apparent with a rapid decline in incidence after drug administration. Ongoing community environmental control, case finding, and health education activities continued to improve the malaria situation post-campaign. Further, the campaign promoted the decentralization of malaria control activities and integration of the malaria efforts with the nationwide primary health care system. Date: 1986 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:22:y:1986:i:8:p:869-877 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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