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The barriers and facilitators influencing the sustainability of hospital-based interventions: a systematic review
Acknowledgements University of Stirling for providing financial support for open access costs Funding This review was funded by the Chief Scientist Office, grant number GCA/17/26. JC, PC and EAD are employed by the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit, which is funded by the Chief Scientist Office in Scotland.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Corporate Social Responsibility to the Community: A Process-oriented Model for Contractual Relations
Modelled effects of prawn aquaculture on poverty alleviation and schistosomiasis control
Recent evidence suggests that snail predators may aid efforts to control
the human parasitic disease schistosomiasis by eating aquatic snail
species that serve as intermediate hosts of the parasite. Here,
potential synergies between schistosomiasis control and aquaculture of
giant prawns are evaluated using an integrated
bioeconomic-epidemiological model. Combinations of stocking density and
aquaculture cycle length that maximize cumulative, discounted profit are
identified for two prawn species in sub-Saharan Africa: the endemic,
non-domesticated Macrobrachium vollenhovenii and the non-native,
domesticated Macrobrachium rosenbergii. At profit-maximizing densities,
both M. rosenbergii and M. vollenhovenii may substantially reduce
intermediate host snail populations and aid schistosomiasis control
efforts. Control strategies drawing on both prawn aquaculture to reduce
intermediate host snail populations and mass drug administration to
treat infected individuals are found to be superior to either strategy
alone. Integrated aquaculture-based interventions can be a win-win
strategy in terms of health and sustainable development in
schistosomiasis endemic regions of the world