ANTC68H3 Chapter Notes -Onchocerciasis, Cold Chain, Market System
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Week # 10: surveillance, eradication and control: successes and failures william foege. 6 lessons that require examination on disease eradication and control. Another part of the problem definition is the lesson learned wit the epidemic intelligence. Service program in the us: response to biological warfare, now we know a lot about polio, measles, hepatitis and diseae control problems in the us, created a national network which has strengthened the public health system. A useful approach to disease eradication or control is to change the question. Fourth, primacy of prevention which the primacy of vaccines: vaccine is of permanent value, need to get away from needles, syringes, towards oral, nebulizers, get rid of cold chain and have a heat-stable vaccine. Fifth, there are some generic barriers: market system is a barrier to disease eradication and control, political will how to translate what we know into political action, social will rotarians and polio mobilize people!
