Public health deworming programmes for soil‐transmitted helminths in children living in endemic areas

DC Taylor‐Robinson, S Donegan… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends treating all school children
at regular intervals with deworming drugs in areas where helminth infection is common …

Prospects for elimination of soil-transmitted helminths

KH Asbjörnsdottir, AR Means, M Werkman… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Elimination of STH may offer an opportunity to eliminate substantial STH-related morbidity
while reducing resource needs of neglected tropical disease programs. Evidence from large …

Prevalence, intensity and associated risk factors of soil-transmitted helminth and schistosome infections in Kenya: Impact assessment after five rounds of mass drug …

C Okoyo, SJ Campbell, K Williams… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background In Kenya, over five million school age children (SAC) are estimated to be at risk
of parasitic worms causing soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and schistosomiasis. As …

Rural education across China's 40 years of reform: past successes and future challenges

A Yue, B Tang, Y Shi, J Tang, G Shang… - China Agricultural …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the policy and trends in rural education in
China over the past 40 years; and also discuss a number of challenges that are faced by …

Teacher qualifications and development outcomes of preschool children in rural China

L Wang, R Dang, Y Bai, S Zhang, B Liu, L Zheng… - Early Childhood …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the preschool period, interactions between teachers and children are an essential input
for healthy development. However, it is not well understood how the qualifications of …

Individual longitudinal compliance to neglected tropical disease mass drug administration programmes, a systematic review

R Maddren, A Phillips, S Rayment Gomez… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Repeated distribution of preventative chemotherapy (PC) by mass drug administration forms
the mainstay of transmission control for five of the 20 recognised neglected tropical diseases …

Paths of social-emotional development before 3 years old and child development after 5 years old: Evidence from rural China

L Wang, Y Chen, S Zhang, S Rozelle - Early Human Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Social-emotional development during the first three years of life is associated
with later social-emotional development and cognitive development. In rural China, research …

Helminth therapy–from the parasite perspective

K Sobotková, W Parker, J Levá, J Růžková, J Lukeš… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Studies in animal models and humans suggest that intentional exposure to helminths or
helminth-derived products may hold promise for treating chronic inflammatory-associated …

Past successes and future challenges in rural China's human capital

Y Bai, S Zhang, L Wang, R Dang, C Abbey… - Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes the current level of human capital in China and seeks to identify a
number of education-related challenges that may slow down the nation's economy from …

[PDF][PDF] Does mass deworming affect child nutrition? Meta-analysis, cost-effectiveness, and statistical power

K Croke, JH Hicks, E Hsu, M Kremer, E Miguel - 2016 - scholar.harvard.edu
Background The WHO has recently debated whether to reaffirm its long-standing
recommendation of mass drug administration (MDA) in areas with more than 20 …