Open AccessAssociation between the socioeconomic determinants and soil-transmitted helminthiasis among school-going children in a rural area of Haryana
Author(s) -
Rohit Dhaka,
Ramesh Verma,
Aparna Parmar,
Vinod Chayal,
Meenakshi Kalhan,
Kapil Bhalla,
Suraj Chawla,
Ginni Agrawal,
Gopal Kumar,
Ashuma Sachdeva
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_383_20
Subject(s) - medicine , sanitation , environmental health , deworming , helminthiasis , latrine , ascaris lumbricoides , socioeconomic status , hygiene , socioeconomics , helminths , population , immunology , pathology , sociology
WHO 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.