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New Ways of Approaching Indoor Residual Spraying for Malaria

Using health extension workers in Ethiopia as supervisors of the spray team reduced operational costs while maintaining quality. But rethinking IRS calls for (1) adapting equipment and procedures to ensure higher-quality spray applications, and (2) empowering decentralized targeting against malaria...

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Autor principal: Macdonald, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5199168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27965265
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00354
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spelling pubmed-51991682017-01-05 New Ways of Approaching Indoor Residual Spraying for Malaria Macdonald, Michael Glob Health Sci Pract Editorial Using health extension workers in Ethiopia as supervisors of the spray team reduced operational costs while maintaining quality. But rethinking IRS calls for (1) adapting equipment and procedures to ensure higher-quality spray applications, and (2) empowering decentralized targeting against malaria transmission foci. Global Health: Science and Practice 2016-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5199168/ /pubmed/27965265 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00354 Text en © Macdonald. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00354
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