De-worming school children and hygiene intervention
| Autor: | T V Luong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Veterinary medicine
Adolescent Sanitation Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Helminthiasis Child Welfare Disease Global Health Education Health problems Water Supply Hygiene Intervention (counseling) Environmental health parasitic diseases Global health Humans Medicine Helminths Child Developing Countries School Health Services media_common Physical development Asia Eastern business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Pollution business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 13:S153-S159 |
| ISSN: | 1369-1619 0960-3123 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0960312031000102912 |
| Popis: | Helminths or worm infestations refer to worms that live as parasites in the human body and are a fundamental cause of disease associated with health and nutrition problems beyond gastrointestinal tract disturbances. Globally, over 3.5 billion people are infected with intestinal worms, of which 1.47 billion are with roundworm, 1.3 billion people with hookworm and 1.05 billion with whipworm. School children aged 5 - 15 years suffer the highest infection rate and worm burden that attributes to poor sanitation and hygiene. About 400 million school-age children are infected with roundworm, whipworm and hookworm worldwide, a large proportion of whom are found in the East Asia region (Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam). These parasites consume nutrients from children they infect, thus retarding their physical development. They destroy tissues and organs, cause abdominal pain, diarrhoea, intestinal obstruction, anaemia, ulcers and other health problems. All of these consequences of infection can slow cognitive development and thus impair learning. De-worming school children by anthelmintic drug treatment is a curative approach for expelling the heavy worm load. However, drug therapy alone is only a short-term measure of reducing worm infection and re-infection is frequent. Control measures through improved sanitation, hygiene and de-worming are needed to prevent infection and re-infection. UNICEF has supported many governments in this (and other) regions to assist in the provision of water supply and sanitary facilities and intensive hygiene education in many schools through the Water, Environment and Sanitation (WES) programme. The UNICEF supported school sanitation and hygiene education (SSHE) programme, and other programmes, could effectively enhance behaviour change in children to break the routes of worm transmission and other waterborne diseases. |
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