U1.4 - Intro to Para (Treatment, Prevention and Control) Flashcards
Use of anthelminthic drugs in an individual or public health program
deworming
Number of previously positive subjects found to be egg negative
cure rate
Percentage fall in egg counts after deworming
egg reduction rate
Individual-level deworming
selective treatment
Selection for treatment based on presumptive grounds
selective treatment
Used in whole populations or defined risk groups
selective treatment
Group-level deworming
targeted treatment
Risk group to be treated may be defined by age, sex, etc
targeted treatment
Population-level deworming
universal treatment
Community is treated irrespective of age, sex, infection status, etc.
universal treatment
Regular, systematic, large-scale intervention through administration of
one or more drugs to selected
population groups
preventive chemotherapy
Proportion of target population reached by the intervention
coverage
Effect of a drug
efficacy
Measure of the effect of a drug
effectiveness
Genetically transmitted loss of susceptibility to a drug
drug resistance
Avoidance of illness caused by
infections
morbidity control
Health education strategy
Information-education-communication (IEC)
Aims to encourage people to adapt and maintain healthy life practices
Information-education-communication (IEC)
Planning, organization, performance, and monitoring of activities for medication or manipulation of environmental factors
environmental management
Done to prevent or minimize vector or intermediate host propagation
environmental management
Also done to reduce contact between humans and infective agent
environmental management
intervention to reduce environmental health risks
environmental sanitation
includes safe disposal and hygienic management of human and animal excreta, refuse, and waste water
environmental sanitation
Provision of access to adequate facilities for safe disposal of human excreta
sanitation
