Publications by authors named "Javier Quintanilla Calderon"
Is participation contagious? Evidence from a household vector control campaign in urban Peru.
J Epidemiol Community Health
February 2014
Article Synopsis
- High household participation is essential for the effectiveness of door-to-door vector control campaigns, particularly in the fight against Chagas disease in Peru, as demonstrated by using the Health Belief Model to evaluate factors influencing participation.
- Clustering of participation was found to occur strongly among neighbors, with infested households and those in newer neighborhoods showing higher rates of participation, especially when more neighbors joined in.
- The study suggests that encouraging even a few initial participating households can lead to greater community involvement, indicating that future campaigns should focus on visibility, reducing stigma, and using group incentives to improve participation rates.
With increasing urbanization vector-borne diseases are quickly developing in cities, and urban control strategies are needed. If streets are shown to be barriers to disease vectors, city blocks could be used as a convenient and relevant spatial unit of study and control. Unfortunately, existing spatial analysis tools do not allow for assessment of the impact of an urban grid on the presence of disease agents.
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