Integrated vector control : seventh report of the WHO Expert Committee on Vector Biology and Control [meeting held in Geneva from 7 to 13 December 1982]
Material type: TextSeries: World Health Organization technical report series ; no. 688Publication details: Geneva : World Health Organization, 1983. Description: 72 pISBN: 9241206888Subject(s): Disease vectors | Pest control | Communicable disease controlNLM classification: WA 110Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online | Click here to access online Abstract: Maps out strategies for improving the effectiveness of vector control despite the challenge of increasing costs, pesticide resistance, public opposition, and the uncontrolled growth of towns and cities. The opening sections review the status of vector control throughout the world and compare the organization of vector control services in different countries. Against this background, the report outlines the principles of integrated vector control, arguing for the need to move away from campaigns against single vectors or groups of vectors and to adopt multivalent vector control programmes. Various methods available for implementing such programmes are then described with examples illustrating the control of mosquitos in rice fields, of domestic mosquitos, of the triatominae bug vectors of Chagas' disease, and of the molluscan intermediate hosts of schistosomes. Other sections consider the special problems of vector control in urban areas and issue advice on the organization, administration, staffing, and evaluation of vector control services in both developed and developing countries. The report also identifies several criteria that vector control techniques should meet if they are to be considered for use in primary health care programmes or by the community.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Maps out strategies for improving the effectiveness of vector control despite the challenge of increasing costs, pesticide resistance, public opposition, and the uncontrolled growth of towns and cities. The opening sections review the status of vector control throughout the world and compare the organization of vector control services in different countries. Against this background, the report outlines the principles of integrated vector control, arguing for the need to move away from campaigns against single vectors or groups of vectors and to adopt multivalent vector control programmes. Various methods available for implementing such programmes are then described with examples illustrating the control of mosquitos in rice fields, of domestic mosquitos, of the triatominae bug vectors of Chagas' disease, and of the molluscan intermediate hosts of schistosomes. Other sections consider the special problems of vector control in urban areas and issue advice on the organization, administration, staffing, and evaluation of vector control services in both developed and developing countries. The report also identifies several criteria that vector control techniques should meet if they are to be considered for use in primary health care programmes or by the community.
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