TY - JOUR
T1 - Mathematical models and lymphatic filariasis control
T2 - monitoring and evaluating interventions
AU - Michael, Edwin
AU - Malecela-Lazaro, Mwele N.
AU - Maegga, Bertha T.A.
AU - Fischer, Peter
AU - Kazura, James W.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the anonymous reviewers for their instructive comments on this article. We are grateful to the UK Medical Research Council, the British Council Higher Education Link Programme, and the National Institutes for Health, USA, for financial support of this work. The simulations carried out in this paper were made possible by the technical development of the EPIFIL deterministic model of filariasis transmission by Man-Suen Chan and Rachel Norman when they were with the lead author at Oxford University.
PY - 2006/11
Y1 - 2006/11
N2 - Monitoring and evaluation are crucially important to the scientific management of any mass parasite control programme. Monitoring enables the effectiveness of implemented actions to be assessed and necessary adaptations to be identified; it also determines when management objectives are achieved. Parasite transmission models can provide a scientific template for informing the optimal design of such monitoring programmes. Here, we illustrate the usefulness of using a model-based approach for monitoring and evaluating anti-parasite interventions and discuss issues that need addressing. We focus on the use of such an approach for the control and/or elimination of the vector-borne parasitic disease, lymphatic filariasis.
AB - Monitoring and evaluation are crucially important to the scientific management of any mass parasite control programme. Monitoring enables the effectiveness of implemented actions to be assessed and necessary adaptations to be identified; it also determines when management objectives are achieved. Parasite transmission models can provide a scientific template for informing the optimal design of such monitoring programmes. Here, we illustrate the usefulness of using a model-based approach for monitoring and evaluating anti-parasite interventions and discuss issues that need addressing. We focus on the use of such an approach for the control and/or elimination of the vector-borne parasitic disease, lymphatic filariasis.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33749189093
U2 - 10.1016/j.pt.2006.08.011
DO - 10.1016/j.pt.2006.08.011
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16971182
AN - SCOPUS:33749189093
SN - 1471-4922
VL - 22
SP - 529
EP - 535
JO - Trends in Parasitology
JF - Trends in Parasitology
IS - 11
ER -