Plan de control de las infecciones entéricas : Saneamiento ambiental, epidemiología, educación para la salud y diagnóstico y tratamiento oportunos

Abstract

With the techniques and methodology now available, formulae that will produce spectacular results in a public health program within a short time and at a low cost cannot be expected. In this paper study is made of the role of environmental sanitation in the control of enteric infections, also known as diarrheal diseases, with special emphasis on water supply programs first, and second on the sanitary disposal of sewage and waste waters

It should be reemphasized that in control programs the main effort should be aimed at environmental sanitation, since the available techniques of preventive medicine require certain prior or simultaneous conditions, which can be achieved through sanitation. On the other hand the techniques of curative medicine, though an important factor in reducing mortality rates, have no effect on morbidity rates

The most important measure in the sanitation field, and the one of greates priority, is water supply under certain conditions, which will be discussed in detail; sewage disposal is logically the next subject for the discussion. Insect and fly control can be instituted once the results of water supply have been obtained, since disease transmission by vectors will then begin to take first place. When insecticides capable of exterminating the vector population are not available, attempts to interrupt transmission may be made by indirect means, such as sewage and ...(AU)