Prevention, control, and elimination of neglected diseases in the Americas: Pathways to integrated, inter-programmatic, inter-sectoral action for health and development

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Holveck, John C ^a   Ehrenberg, John P ^a   Ault, Steven K ^a   Rojas, Rocio ^b   Vasquez, Javier ^a   Cerqueira, Maria Teresa ^b   Ippolito Shepherd, Josefa ^a   Genovese, Miguel A ^c   Periago, Mirta Roses ^a  

^a PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Pan American Foot and Mouth Disease Center   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; POVERTY; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STANDARD; WELLBEING; CARIBBEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE;

CARIBBEAN REGION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; POVERTY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 33846797259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-6     Document Type: Review

References (98)

1. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2000 New York 2000
2. Pan American Health Organization, Area of Health Analysis and Information Systems (AIS), Health Situation in the Americas Basic Indicators 2005 Washington, DC 2005
3. PovertyNet. World Bank, http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/
4. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1998 New York 1998
5. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1999 New York 1999
6. World Bank, World Development Report 2000/2001 Washington, D.C 2000
7. United Nations Children's Fund, The State of the World's Children 1999 New York 1999
8. World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2000. Health Systems: Improving Performance Geneva 2000 http://www.who.int/whr/2000
9. Global poverty report 2000. African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund World Bank, G8 Summit: 23 July 2000; Okinawa, Japan http://www.adb.org/documents/reports/global_poverty/2000/G8_2000.pdf
10. P Collier, Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy Washington D.C.: World Bank 2003
11. Root causes of violent conflict in developing countries. F Stewart, BMJ 2002 324 342 345 11834564 10.1136/bmj.324.7333.342
12. The economic causes of humanitarian emergencies. EW Nafziger J Auvinen, War, Hunger and Displacement: The Origin of Humanitarian Emergencies Oxford: Oxford University Press, Nafziger EW, Stewart F, and Vayrynen R, 2000 91 145
13. Environmental scarcities and violent conflict: evidence from cases. T Homer-Dixon, Int Secur 1994 19 5 40 10.2307/2539147
14. The coming anarchy: how scarcity, crime, overpopulation and disease are threatening the social fabric of our planet. R Kaplan, Atlantic Monthly 1994 44 74
15. Water scarcity as a source of crisis. A Swain, War, Hunger and Displacement: The Origin of Humanitarian Emergencies Oxford: Oxford University Press, Nafziger EW, Stewart F, Vayrynen R, 2000 179 205
16. U.S. Government, The National Security Strategy of the United States (NSS) Washington, DC 2000 http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html
17. MW Rosegrant MS Paisner S Meijer J Witcover, Global Food Projections 2020: Emerging Trends and Alternative Futures Washington D.C.: International Food Policy and Research Institute 2001
18. Eradicating poverty and hunger as a national security issue for the United States. P Pinstrup-Andersen, ESCP Report 2003 9 22 27
19. World Health Organization, World Health Report 2002 Geneva 2002
20. Contrasting patterns in the small-scale heterogeneity of human helminth infections in urban and rural environments in Brazil. S Brooker N Alexander S Geiger RA Moyeed J Stander F Fleming PJ Hotez R Correa-Oliveira J Bethony, Int J Parasitol 2006 36 1143 1151 16814294 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.05.009
21. Debate: Neglected diseases of neglected populations: Thinking to reshape the determinants of health in Latin America and the Caribbean. JP Ehrenberg SK Ault, BMC Public Health 2005 5 (11 November 2005) 16283932
22. Editorial, Lancet 364 1993 1994 4 December 2004 15582039
23. World Health Organization, Report of the Third Global Meeting of the Partner's for Parasite Control: Deworming for Health and Development Geneva 2005
24. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of albendazole in improving nutritional status of pre-school children in urban slums. S Awasthi VK Pande RH Fletcher, Indian Pediatr 2000 37 804 806 10745385
25. A study of the cost-effectiveness of selective health interventions for the control of intestinal parasites in rural Bangladesh. CG Mascie-Taylor M Alam RM Montanari R Karim T Ahmed E Karim S Akhtar, J Parasitol 1999 85 6 11 10.2307/3285691 10207355
26. Treatment of Trichuris trichiura infection improves growth, spelling scores and school attendance in some children. DT Simeon SM Grantham-McGregor JE Callender MS Wong, J Nutr 1995 125 1875 1883 7616304
27. Best practices: using microfinance to improve health and nutrition security. C Dunford B Mknelly, Global Health Council Health Link 2002 118 9 22
28. Functional significance of low-intensity polyparasite helminth infections in anemia. AE Ezeamama JF Friedman OM Remigio LP Acosta JD Kurtis V Mor ST McGarvey, J Infect Dis 2005 192 2160 2170 10.1086/498219 16288383
29. Hookworm control as a strategy to prevent iron deficiency. RJ Stoltzfus ML Dreyfuss HM Chwaya M Albonico, Nutr Rev 1997 55 223 232 9279058
30. The world's most neglected diseases. G Yamey, BMJ 2002 325 176 177 12142292 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.176
31. Collaborative inter-sectoral approaches to nutrition in a community on the urban fringe. K Webb P Hawe M Noort, Health Educ Behav 2001 28 306 318 11380051
32. Control of neglected tropical diseases: integrated chemotherapy and beyond. J Utzinger D de Savigny, PLoS Med 2006 3 5 e112 16435910 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030112
33. World Health Organization, Prevention and Control of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis. WHO Tech Rep Ser 2002 912
34. Incorporating a rapid-impact package for neglected tropical diseases with programs for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. PJ Hotez DH Molyneux A Fenwick E Ottesen SE Sachs JD Sachs, PLoS Med 2006 3 e102 0584 16435908 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030102
35. A blueprint for success: integration of neglected tropical disease control programmes. PJ Lammie A Fenwick J Utzinger, Trends Parasitol 2006 22 313 321 10.1016/j.pt.2006.05.009 16713738
36. Fostering inter-sectoral partnering: a guide to promoting cooperation among government, business, and civil society actors. S Waddell D Brown, Institute for Development Research Reports 1997 13 1 22
37. Partnering for results: a user's guide to inter-sectoral partnering. C Charles S McNulty J Pennell, U.S. Agency for International Development. Mission's Directors' Conference: November 1998; Washington, D.C http://www.usaid.gov/pubs/isp/handbook/guide.html
38. Pan American Health Organization, Health of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Program. Proposal: Lines of Work and Action Plan 2005-2015 Washington, DC 2004
39. Intestinal parasitism in a Parakana indigenous community in southwestern Para State, Brazil. RA Miranda FB Xavier RC Menezes, Cad Saude Publica 1998 14 507 511 9761604
40. Intestinal parasites in Iaualapiti Indians from Xingu Park, Mato Grosso, Brazil. CS Ferreira LM Camargo M Moitinho Azevedo RA de, Memorias Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 1991 86 441 442
41. Risk factors for multiple intestinal parasites in an indigenous community of the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. A Fontbonne E Freese-De-Carvalho MD Acioli GA Sa EA Cesse, Cad Saude Publica 2001 17 367 373 11283767
42. Emerging foodborne trematodiasis. J Keiser J Utzinger, Emerg Infect Dis 2005 11 1507 1514 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol11no10/05-0614.htm#cit 16318688
43. Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections in an indigenous community in Ortigueira, Parana, Brazil and relationship with nutritional status. A Beltrame C Scolari C Torti C Urbani, Parassitologia 2002 44 137 139 12701374
44. Prevalence and distribution of soil transmitted helminth infections in indigenous schoolchildren in Ortigueira, State of Parana, Brazil: implications for control. C Scolari C Torti A Beltrame A Matteelli F Castelli M Gulletta M Ribas S Morana C Urbani, Trop Med Int Health 2000 5 302 307 10.1046/j.1365-3156. 2000.00549.x 10810031
45. International Fund for Agricultural Devleopment, Regional Strategy Paper: Strategy for Rural Poverty Reduction Latin America and the Caribbean Rome 2002 http://www.ifad.org/operations/regional/2002/pl/PLeng.pdf
46. World Bank, Reaching the Rural Poor: A Rural Development Strategy for the Latin American and Caribbean Region Washington, D.C 2002
47. Rural poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. A Valdes T Wiens, Proceedings of the Second Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: 30 May 1996; Washington DC Washington D.C: World Bank 1996
48. P Kostov J Lingard, Integrated Rural Development - Do We Need a New Approach? Belfast: Queen's University 2000 http://econwpa.wustl.edu/eps/othr/ papers/0409/0409006.pdf
49. Productive municipalities and food security at the local level. AJ Morales, Provisional Agenda Item 12 at the PAHO XII Inter-American Meeting, at the Ministerial Level, on Health and Agriculture: 2-4 May 2001; Sao Paulo, Brazil http://www.paho.org/english/ad/dpc/vp/rimsa12_19-e.pdf
50. Effect of irrigation and large dams on the burden of malaria on a global regional scale. J Keiser MC Casto MF Maltese R Bos M Tanner BH Singer J Utzinger, Am J Trop Med Hyg 2005 72 392 406 15827275
51. Malaria, schistosomiasis, and intestinal helminths in relation to microdams in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. T Alemayehu Y Ye-ebiyo TA Ghebreyesus KH Witten A Bosman A Teklehaimanot, Parassitologia 1998 40 259 267 10376281
52. Schistosomiasis and water resources development: systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimates of people at risk. P Steinmann J Keiser R Bos M Tanner J Utzinger, Lancet Infect Dis 2006 6 411 425 10.1016/S1473-3099(06)70521- 7 16790382
53. The potential of intermittent irrigation for increasing rice yields, lowering water consumption, reducing methane emissions, and controlling malaria in African rice fields. J Keiser J Utzinger BH Singer, J Am Mosq Control Assoc 2002 18 329 340 12542191
54. New irrigation methods sustain malaria control in Sichuan Province, China. L Qunhua K Xin C Changzhi F Shengzheng L Yan H Rongzhi Z Zhihua G Gibson K Wenmin, Acta Trop 2004 89 241 247 10.1016/j.actatropica.2003.09.017 14732245
55. The effect of deforestation on the human-biting rate of Anopheles darlingi, the primary vector of Falciparum malaria in the Peruvian Amazon. AY Vittor RH Gilman J Tielsch G Glass T Shields WS Lozano V Pinedo-Cancio A Patz, Am J Trop Med Hyg 2006 74 3 11 16407338
56. Malaria risk on the Amazon frontier. MC de Castro RL Monte-Mor DO Sawyer BH Singer, PNAS 2006 103 2452 2457 16461902 10.1073/pnas.0510576103
57. Effects of stunting, diarrhoeal disease, and parasitic infection during infancy on cognition in late childhood: a follow up study. DS Berkman AG Lescano RH Gilman SL Lopez MM Black, Lancet 2002 359 564 571 10.1016/S0140-6736(02) 07744-9 11867110
58. Malaria among gold miners in southern Para, Brazil: estimates of determinants and individual costs. SA Vosti, Soc Sci Med 1990 30 1097 1105 10.1016/0277-9536(90)90296-5 2363060
59. Onchocerciasis in Guatemala. I. Epidemiological studies of microfilaria. LE Fazen RI Anderson HF Marroquin FG Arthes AA Buck, Am J Trop Med Hyg 1975 24 52 57 1111355
60. Vitamin A status and hemoglobin concentrations are improved in Indonesian children with Vitamin A and de-worming interventions. SA Tanumihardo MD Permaeish, Eur J Clin Nutr 2004 58 1223 1230 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601953 15054437
61. Changes in iron status during pregnancy in Peruvian women receiving prenatal iron and folic acid supplements with or without zinc. N Zavaleta LE Caufield T Garcia, Am J Clin Nutr 2000 71 956 961 10731503
62. Zinc deficiency. AS Prasad, BMJ 2003 326 409 12595353 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.409
63. Community driven development approaches in housing sector projects in transition economies. World Bank, Social Development Notes: Community Driven Development and Urban Services for the Poor 2004 71 http://www.worldbank.org/ urban/upgrading/docs/CDD/cdd-eca-Housing.pdf
64. Monitoring community-directed treatment programmes for sustainability: lessons from the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC). UV Amazigo M Obono KY Dadzie J Remme J Jiya R Ndyomugyenyi JB Roungou M Noma A Seketeli, Ann Trop Med Parasitol 2002 96 Suppl 1 Suppl 1 S75 S92 10.1179/ 000349802125000664
65. Pan American Health Organization, Healthy Municipalities and Communities. Mayors' Guide for Promoting Quality of Life Washington, D.C 2002
66. 4.4.3 Assessments of environmental health hazards (EHH): proposed programme budget 2000-2001. World Health Organization, http://www.wpro.who.int/ NR/rdonlyres/FA0188F6-960F-491E-A64E-D9892998A7FD/0/RC5203.pdf
67. Planificacion local participativa. Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, PALTEX Health Promotion Series Washington DC 1999
68. Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Adapted from the First International Conference on Health Promotion: 21 November 1986 http://www.who.int/hpr/NPH/ docs/ottawa_charter_hp.pdf
69. Em Chopinzinho, a melhora qualidade de vida comecou no campo. Health Promotion Project/Department of Health Ministry of Health, Health Promotion Review 1999 1 27 30
70. Pan American Health Organization, An Integrated, Multi-Disease Community Based Approach in the Control of Soil-Transmitted Worms in Brazil Washington, DC 2002
71. Health-Promoting schools. MT Cerqueira, World Health 1996 4
72. J Ippolito-Shepherd K Cimmino, La Iniciativa Regional Escuelas Promotoras de la Salud. Ensayos y Experiencias, 45 Salud-Educación Colección Psicología y Educación. Edición Novedades Educativas 2002
73. J Ippolito-Shepherd, Las Escuelas Promotoras de la Salud en América Latina - Resultados de la Primera Encuesta Regional Serie Promoción de la Salud Washington, DC: OPS/OMS 2005 3
74. Pan American Health Organization, Health-Promoting Schools: Strengthening of the Regional Initiative. Strategies and Lines of Action 2003-2012 Health Promotion Series Washington, DC 2003 4
75. Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Memoria de la I Reunión de la Red Latinoamericana de Escuelas Promotoras de la Salud Washington, DC: OPS/OMS 1997
76. Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Memoria de la IV Reunión de la Red Latinoamericana de Escuelas Promotoras de la Salud: 11-16 de julio 2004; San Juan, Puerto Rico Serie Promoción de la Salud Washington, DC: OPS/OMS 2006 11
77. Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Memoria de la III Reunión de la Red Latinoamericana de Escuelas Promotoras de la Salud: 10-13 septiembre 2002; Quito, Ecuador Serie Promoción de la Salud Washington, DC: OPS/OMS 2003 5
78. Pan American Health Organization, Proceedings of the First Meeting and Creation of the Caribbean Network of Health-Promoting Schools: 26-28 November 2001 Bridgetown, Barbados, Health Promotion Series Washington, DC: PAHO/WHO 2002 2
79. World Resources Institute, United Nations Environment Programme, The United Nations Development Programme, World Bank, World Resources 1998-99. A Guide to the Global Environment: Environmental Change and Human Health New York 1999
80. World Health Organization, Health and the Environment in Sustainable Development: Five Years After the Earth Summit Geneva 1997
81. Environmental primary care for the 21st century. Anon, Rev Panam Salud Publica 1998 4 290 296 9924511
82. World Bank, World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health Washington, D.C 1993
83. Agenda 21. United Nations, Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: 3-14 June 1992; Rio de Janeiro New York 1992
84. Environmental management: a re-emerging vector control strategy. SK Ault, Am J Trop Med Hyg 1994 50 6 Suppl 35 49 8024083
85. A participatory approach to sanitation: experience of Bangladeshi NGOs. A Hadi, Health Policy Plan 2000 15 332 337 10.1093/heapol/15.3.332 11012409
86. Pan American Health Organization, Annual Report of the Director Washington, D.C 2000
87. World Health Organization, International Workshop, Intensified Control of Neglected Diseases, Summary Report: 10-12 December, 2003; Berlin http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2004/WHO_CDS_CPE_CEE_2004.45.pdf
88. The burden of disease among the global poor. DR Gwatkin M Guillot P Heuveline, Lancet 1999 354 586 589 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)02108-X 10470717
89. Pan American Health Organization, 13th Inter-American Meeting at the Ministerial Level on Health and Agriculture (RIMSA 13): 24-25 April 2003; Washington, D.C http://www.paho.org/english/ad/dpc/vp/rimsa13index-e.htm
90. Pan American Health Organization, 12th Inter-American Meeting at the Ministerial Level on Health and Agriculture (RIMSA 12): 2-4 May 2001; Sao Paulo, Brazil http://bvs.panaftosa.org.br/textoc/rimsa12-fr-2001ing.pdf
91. Joint FAO-WHO Expert Committee on Zoonoses third report. World Health Organization, World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser 1967 378 1 127 4968934
92. Neglected diseases in neglected populations with emphasis on zoonoses. Pan American Health Organization, 14th Inter-American Meeting at the Ministerial Level, on Health and Agriculture, Provisional Agenda Item 13.5, RIMSA 14/18: 18 April 2005
93. An epidemiological study of Taenia solium cysticercosis in a rural population in the Bolivian Chaco. J Carrique-Mas N Iihoshi MA Widdowson Y Roca G Morales J Quiroga F Cejas M Caihuara R Ibarra M Edelsten, Acta Trop 2001 80 229 235 10.1016/S0001-706X(01)00161-9 11700180
94. Comparative infectivity of Fasciola hepatica metacercariae from isolates of the main and secondary reservoir animal host species in the Bolivian Altiplano high human endemic region. MA Valero S Mas-Coma, Folia Parasitol (Praha) 2000 47 17 22 10833011
95. Synergy between public health and veterinary services to deliver human and animal health interventions in rural low income settings. E Schelling K Wyss M Bechir M Doumagoum J Zinsstag, BMJ 2005 331 1264 1267 16308393 10.1136/bmj.331.7527.1264
96. Potential of cooperation between human and animal health to strengthen health systems. J Zinsstag E Schelling K Wyss MB Mahamat, Lancet 2005 366 2142 2145 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67731-8 16360795
97. Animal health and primary health care. M Moro, Educ Med Salud 1983 17 263 274 6641588
98. F Rosenswieg E Perez J Corvetto S Tobias, Improving Sanitation in Small Towns in Latin America and the Caribbean: Practical Methodology for Designing a Sustainable Sanitation Plan Washington, DC: US Agency for International Development 2002