Parasitological and Nutritional Status of School-Age and Preschool-Age Children in Four Villages in Southern Leyte, Philippines: Lessons for Monitoring the Outcome of Community-Led Total Sanitation

• Main Authors: Belizario, Vicente Y, Jr, Liwanag, Harvy Joy, Naig, June Rose A, Chua, Paul Lester C, Madamba, Manuel I, Dahildahil, Roy O
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2014
• Subjects: Intestinal helminthiasis; School-age population; Preschool child; Sanitation; Defecation; Tropical medicine; Internal Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Public Health
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/asmph-pubs/18; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001706X1400299X?via%3Dihub
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

While preventive chemotherapy remains to be a major strategy for the prevention and control of soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH), improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) comprise the long-term strategy to achieve sustained control of STH. This study examined the parasitological and...