Sunday 1 January 2017

Malaria control strategies mnemonic

Hello friends today I will make a short post on approaches and strategies of malaria control....
It comes as a long question in 3rd prof part I community medicine paper...
So here is the mnemonic ..

   SIESmic

   S= Surveillance & case management
    I= Integrated vector management(IBM)
    E= Epidemic preparedness
    S= Supportive interventions
Now Surveillance & case management has 3 part these are ESC  surveillance

E= Early diagnosis and treatment
S=  sentinel surveillance
C= Case detection( active and passive)

Supportive interventions can be remembered with the mnemonic MICRO

M= Montering & evaluation
I=  Intersectoral collaboration
C= Capacity building
R=  R looks like B  so B for Behavioural change communication
O= Operational research and applied field research