TY - JOUR
KW - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
KW - General Medicine
KW - Health(social science)
AU - Hopkins DR
AU - Ijaz K
AU - Weiss A
AU - Roy SL
AU - Ross D
AB - In a recent article, Gebre1 suggests that endemic countries should lead in deciding on disease eradication initiatives and asserts that ‘elimination as a public health problem’ is the preferred option because eradication occurs at the expense of other health programs and weakens fragile health systems. The author's primary example is dracunculiasis (Guinea worm) eradication, but he fails to take into account that vertical disease elimination and eradication programs also strengthen health systems overall. Eradication means permanent reduction to an incidence of zero of a...
BT - International Health
DO - 10.1093/inthealth/ihab055
LA - eng
N2 - In a recent article, Gebre1 suggests that endemic countries should lead in deciding on disease eradication initiatives and asserts that ‘elimination as a public health problem’ is the preferred option because eradication occurs at the expense of other health programs and weakens fragile health systems. The author's primary example is dracunculiasis (Guinea worm) eradication, but he fails to take into account that vertical disease elimination and eradication programs also strengthen health systems overall. Eradication means permanent reduction to an incidence of zero of a...
PB - Oxford University Press (OUP)
PY - 2021
T2 - International Health
TI - Reply to: Rethinking disease eradication: putting countries first
SN - 1876-3413, 1876-3405
ER -