Helminth control in school-age children : a guide for managers of control programmes /
This book is a guide for planners and programme managers in the health and education sectors 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 cause mo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Geneva :
World Health Organization,
2002.
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| Summary: | This book is a guide for planners and programme managers in the health and education sectors 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 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 sc. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 64 pages) : illustrations, maps, forms |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 52-53). |
| ISBN: | 1417531061 9781417531066 9789241545563 9241545569 9240680675 9789240680678 1280041447 9781280041440 9786610041442 661004144X |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |