Evaluation of dengue control program: critical issues and the population's perception: a case study in a Brazilian Northeast town

Abstract

SUMMARY OF THESIS

Vigilancia epidemiológica incompleta de la epidemia de dengue-2 en Ibagué, Colombia, 1995-1997

“…More often than not, current strategies in Colombia rely solely on clean-up campaigns to dispose of used tires, discarded buckets, tin cans, and plastic containers which are potential breeding sites, and ineffective health education campaigns. This is a common characteristic with other dengue control programs in Latin America where they act on only few of the aspects that compose the complex causal chain of the disease (15).…”