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ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2020

Association between the socioeconomic determinants and soil-transmitted helminthiasis among school-going children in a rural area of Haryana.

Rohit Dhaka, Ramesh Verma, Aparna Parmar, Vinod Chayal, Meenakshi Kalhan, Kapil Bhalla, Suraj Chawla, Ginni Agrawal, Gopal Kumar, Aman Sachdeva

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Article in Journal of family medicine and primary care, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Rohit DhakaDepartment of Community Medicine, ESIC Medical College and Hospital Faridabad, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Ramesh VermaDepartment of Community Medicine, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Aparna ParmarMicrobiology, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Vinod ChayalDepartment of Community Medicine, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Meenakshi KalhanDepartment of Community Medicine, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Kapil BhallaDepartment of Pediatrics, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Suraj ChawlaDepartment of Community Medicine, SHKM Government Medical College, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Ginni AgrawalDepartment of Community Medicine, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Gopal KumarDepartment of Community Medicine, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Aman SachdevaDepartment of Community Medicine, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak, Nalhar, Nuh, India.
Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences · INESIC Hospital · INGovernment Medical College · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWHO indicates that India has the highest burden of soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) in the world, contributing to 25% of the total global cases, with 220 million children aged 1-14 estimated to be at risk. AIM AND

objectiveTo study the association between the socioeconomic factors and STHs among primary school children in a rural area of Haryana. METHODOLOGY: The study was conducted among children aged 6-10 years studying in the rural government primary schools in the rural areas of Haryana. A total of 300 children were enrolled from government school.

resultsThe study found that the prevalence of helminthiasis was 28.7% (86/300) and of these 14.0% children were infected with DISCUSSION: The morbidity can be reduced with appropriate inputs to improve the environmental factors. This may need investment for sanitary latrines, food hygiene, and safe drinking water, anti-helminthic drugs, and health education. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The results of the study concluded and recommended that proper implementation of national deworming day and other long-term strategies like sanitation, clean drinking water, adequate sanitation, and also improvement in nutritional status through various nutritional health programmes.

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