2013
DOI: 10.1186/2049-9957-2-29
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Development of an educational cartoon to prevent worm infections in Chinese schoolchildren

Abstract: BackgroundWith more than two billion people infected worldwide, soil-transmitted helminths (STH) are the most widespread infections. To date, STH control efforts rely predominantly on recurrent mass drug administration (MDA), which does not prevent reinfection. Additional public health measures including novel health educational tools are required for more sustained integrated control of STH. We describe the development of an educational cartoon video (The Magic Glasses) targeting STH infections in Chinese sch… Show more

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“…The approach is currently being tested in Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa and we will further expand into the Philippines in 2015. Future programs could also involve the integration of chemotherapy and health education with WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) efforts to ensure access to clean water and good sanitation in addition to improved personal hygiene [14–16]. Ultimately, the work in China has the potential to be a model for other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) because it illustrates the direct impact that health education can have in improving knowledge and awareness, and in changing hygiene behaviour, thereby reducing the chances of an individual becoming infected.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The approach is currently being tested in Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa and we will further expand into the Philippines in 2015. Future programs could also involve the integration of chemotherapy and health education with WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) efforts to ensure access to clean water and good sanitation in addition to improved personal hygiene [14–16]. Ultimately, the work in China has the potential to be a model for other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) because it illustrates the direct impact that health education can have in improving knowledge and awareness, and in changing hygiene behaviour, thereby reducing the chances of an individual becoming infected.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast, health education and promotion programmes can be highly effective at reducing the incidence of STH infections if designed appropriately such as the highly successful "Magic Glasses" study, which resulted in a 50% reduction in STH infections [36]. However, sustained reinforcement of health messages is required in order to increase their effectiveness over the longer term [37,38]. Ultimately, eliminating STH will be best achieved through integrated control programmes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other words related to sex and gender used in the publications describing the interventions included female [64,66- [61][62][63]69,70,85,91,100]. None of the interventions made references to a third sex or to gender diverse people.…”
Section: Theme 1: Gender Equality Commitmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…By gender, for example, by having gender-specific focus groups [66,89,90]. Twelve interventions reported data disaggregated by sex [66][67][68][69][70][71][75][76][77]79,80,[84][85][86][88][89][90]100,101] and four considered gender when interpreting it [67,84,85,90]. The gender responsive intervention is an example of how data collection and reporting can be disaggregated by sex and gender [67].…”
Section: Theme 6: Data Collection and Reportingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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