ArticleParasites & vectors2019
Inequalities in the social determinants of health and Chagas disease transmission risk in indigenous and creole households in the Argentine Chaco.
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- Modeling the impact of xenointoxication in dogs to halt Trypanosoma cruzi transmission.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
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- Modeling the impact of xenointoxication in dogs to haltmedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
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- Chagas disease and perceived quality of life: a cross-sectional study.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe social determinants of health (SDHs) condition disease distribution and the ways they are handled. Socio-economic inequalities are closely linked to the occurrence of neglected tropical diseases, but empirical support is limited in the case of Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Herein we assessed the relationship between key structural SDHs and the risk of T. cruzi vector-borne transmission in rural communities of the Argentine Chaco occupied by creoles and an indigenous group (Qom). We used multiple correspondence analysis to quantify the household-level socio-economic position (social vulnerability and assets indices), access to health and sanitation services, and domestic host availability. We identified the most vulnerable population subgroups by comparing their demographic profiles, mobility patterns and distribution of these summary indices, then assessed their spatial correlation and household-level effects on vector domiciliary indices as transmission risk surrogates.
resultsQom households had higher social vulnerability and fewer assets than creoles, as did local movers and migrant households compared with non-movers. We found significantly positive effects of social vulnerability and domestic host availability on infected Triatoma infestans abundance, after adjusting for ethnicity. Access to health and sanitation services had no effect on transmission risk. Only social vulnerability displayed significant global spatial autocorrelation up to 1 km. A hotspot of infected vectors overlapped with an aggregation of most vulnerable households.
conclusionsThis synthetic approach to assess socio-economic related inequalities in transmission risk provides key information to guide targeted vector control actions, case detection and treatment of Chagas disease, towards sustainability of interventions and greater reduction of health inequalities.
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