Collaboration between clinical and public health services: an important guarantee for consolidating malaria elimination achievements
10.16250/j.32.1374.2024027
- VernacularTitle:医防协作：巩固消除疟疾成果的重要保障
- Author:
Jianhai YIN
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Li ZHANG
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Zhigui XIA
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Author Information
1. National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research)
2. National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases
3. National Health Commission Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Biology
4. WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases
5. National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200025, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Malaria;
Imported malaria;
Elimination;
Re-establishment;
Collaboration between clinical and public health services
- From:
Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control
2024;36(2):111-115
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
There are still multiple challenges in China during the malaria post-elimination phase, including a large number of imported malaria cases with widespread distribution, low awareness of timely healthcare seeking, insufficient malaria diagnosis and treatment capacity of medical institutions and insufficient malaria surveillance and response capability of disease control and prevention institutions. As the core technical institutions for preventing the re-establishment of malaria transmission, both medical institutions and disease control and prevention institutions are required to enhance the collaboration between clinical and public health services, improve the malaria diagnosis and quality management system, intensify case identification and epidemiological investigations, and improve the management mechanism of antimalarial drug reserves. In addition, doctors are encouraged to become the main force in the health education and promotion of malaria prevention to improve the public health literacy. These approaches are recommended to improve the overall capability of timely identification, standardized treatment and effective response of imported malaria cases, so as to continuously consolidate the malaria elimination achievements in China.
