Using national health weeks to deliver deworming to children: Lessons from Mexico

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 314-317

  Flisser, Ana ^a,f   Valdespino, J L ^b   Garcia Garcia L ^c   Guzman, C ^d   Aguirre, M T ^d   Manon, M L ^d   Gonzalez Gonzalez G ^d   Gyorkos, T W ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b SECRETARÍA DE SALUD   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^d Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico y Referencia Epidemiologicos   (Mexico)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^f NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

CHILD HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HEALTH RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS; CHILD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; PREVALENCE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRICHURIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WORM EXPULSION; WORM INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTICS; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MEXICO; TRICHURIASIS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

ASCARIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 41149094477     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2007.066423     Document Type: Article

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