Cookies on this website

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click 'Accept all cookies' we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you won't see this message again. If you click 'Reject all non-essential cookies' only necessary cookies providing core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility will be enabled. Click 'Find out more' for information on how to change your cookie settings.

For more than 100 years, countries have used mass drug administration as a public health response to soil-transmitted helminth infection. The series of analyses published as Disease Control Priorities is the World Bank's vehicle for exploring the cost-effectiveness and value for money of public health interventions. The first edition was published in 1993 as a technical supplement to the World Bank's World Development Report Investing in Health where deworming was used as an illustrative example of value for money in treating diseases with relatively low morbidity but high prevalence. Over the second (2006) and now third (2017) editions deworming has been an increasingly persuasive example to use for this argument. The latest analyses recognize the negative impact of intestinal worm infection on human capital in poor communities and document a continuing decline in worm infection as a result of the combination of high levels of mass treatment and ongoing economic development trends in poor communities.

Original publication

DOI

10.1016/bs.apar.2018.03.005

Type

Journal article

Journal

Advances in parasitology

Publication Date

01/2018

Volume

100

Pages

127 - 154

Addresses

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: donald.bundy@lshtm.ac.uk.

Keywords

Animals, Humans, Helminthiasis, Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic, Anthelmintics, Cost of Illness, Health Policy