What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine the limitations of historical schistosomiasis interventions and evaluate alternative control strategies that incorporate socio-economic factors and focal transmission dynamics.

January 1, 1992Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo CruzOpen Access

Alternative approaches in schistosomiasis control

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FBFrederico Simões BarbosaUniversidad San Pedro CCCarlos Ε. A. CoimbraInstituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro

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Implication

Field report highlights socio-environmental interventions for parasitic infection in rural communities, suggesting disease control requires addressing economic and structural inequalities.

Key Points

To examine the limitations of historical schistosomiasis interventions and evaluate alternative control strategies that incorporate socio-economic factors and focal transmission dynamics.
Reviewed nearly 70 years of endemic schistosomiasis control efforts and technologies initiated in Egypt in 1922.
Implemented community-based field projects targeting the bio-social-cultural environment across rural areas of Espírito Santo and Pernambuco, Brazil.
Conventional technological strategies and standard interventions deployed over seven decades have failed to achieve satisfactory control of schistosomiasis in endemic regions.
Interventions that account for the focal distribution of prevalence rates and address the political and economic drivers of spatial inequality are required to achieve effective disease control.

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Barbosa et al. (1992) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a96e1bf0e1155e775579c22 https://doi.org/10.1590/s0074-02761992000800033

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Implication

Field report highlights socio-environmental interventions for parasitic infection in rural communities, suggesting disease control requires addressing economic and structural inequalities.