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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Tackling the existing burden of infectious diseases in the developing world: existing gaps and the way forward |
Author: | Bhutta, Z. Salam, R. Das, J. Lassi, Z. |
Citation: | Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2014; 3(1):28-1-28-6 |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
ISSN: | 2049-9957 2049-9957 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Rehana A Salam, Jai K Das and Zohra S Lassi |
Abstract: | This series evaluates the effectiveness of community-based interventions (CBIs) to prevent and control infectious diseases of poverty (IDoP). Evidence from our reviews suggests that CBIs and school-based delivery platforms are effective in averting risk behaviors and reducing the disease burden. Co-implementation of interventions through existing community-based programs including immunization campaigns, antenatal care and maternal and child health programs have the potential to scale-up interventions for IDoP. Future research should focus on the process of developing and implementing efficient community-based programs through a comprehensive approach, and to gauge the effectiveness of various existing delivery models in order to improve morbidity and mortality outcomes. |
Keywords: | Community platforms Community-based interventions HIV/AIDs Infectious diseases of poverty Malaria Neglected tropical diseases Tuberculosis |
Description: | Multilingual abstracts in the six official working languages of the United Nations are online as an additional file. |
Rights: | © 2014 Bhutta et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
DOI: | 10.1186/2049-9957-3-28 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-9957-3-28 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Paediatrics publications |
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