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ReviewThe Journal of infectious diseases2020

The Role of the Private Sector in Supporting Malaria Control in Resource Development Settings.

Robert T Jones, Lucy S Tusting, Hugh M P Smith, Sylvester Segbaya, Michael B Macdonald, Michael J Bangs, James G Logan

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Review in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Robert T JonesArthropod Control Product Test Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Lucy S TustingDepartment of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Hugh M P SmithDepartment of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Sylvester SegbayaJohns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Accra, Ghana.
Michael B Macdonald
Michael J Bangslnternational SOS, Ltd., Timika, Papua Province, Indonesia.
James G LoganDepartment of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/N011570/1Medical Research Council MR/N011570/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Industrial operations of the private sector, such as extraction, agriculture, and construction, can bring large numbers of people into new settlement areas and cause environmental change that promotes the transmission of vector-borne diseases. Industry-related workers and communities unduly exposed to infection risk typically lack the knowledge and means to protect themselves. However, there is a strong business rationale for protecting local resident employees through integrated vector control programs, as well as an ethical responsibility to care for these individuals and the affected communities. We discuss the role and challenges of the private sector in developing malaria control programs, which can include extensive collaborations with the public sector that go on to form the basis of national vector control programs or more broadly support local healthcare systems.

Indexed as

Communicable Disease ControlDeveloping CountriesHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansMalariaPrivate SectorQuality of Health CareSocioeconomic Factorsmalariaprivate sectorresource development settingvector-borne disease

Identifiers

PMID33119094
PMCPMC7594257

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