[Analysis of results of Assessment on National Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention Techniques in 2015].

OBJECTIVE: To assess the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of parasitic diseases among technicians from disease control and prevention institutions. METHODS: The Assessment on National Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention Techniques was organized in September, 2015. Together, 124 subjects from disease control and prevention institutions at province, prefecture or county levels in 31 provinces joined the assessment. A database was built consisting of subjects' basic information and assessment scores. Statistical analysis was used to analyze the scores by gender, age, professional title, institutions and places of participants. RESULTS: The average total score of all the subjects was 123.3, with a passing rate of 57.3%. The average scores of male subjects (48 subjects) and female subjects (76 subjects) were 125.9 and 121.7 respectively; the average scores of the subjects aged under 30 years (57 subjects), between 30 and 40 years (61 subjects) and above 40 years (6 subjects) were 119.6, 128.1 and 111.2 respectively; the average scores of persons with junior (94 subjects), intermediate (28 subjects) and senior (2 subjects) professional titles were 119.2, 135.9 and 140.5 respectively. The average theoretical assessment score of all the subjects was 61.9, with a passing rate of 62.9%. The average practical skill assessment score of all the subjects was 61.4, with a passing rate of 58.1%. CONCLUSIONS: The theoretical assessment results range widely. The theoretical knowledge results of technicians from disease control and prevention institutions are low in general. Therefore, the specific training based on daily work needs to be enhanced.

[Cost-effectiveness analysis of integrated control strategy of parasitic diseases in demonstration plots].

OBJECTIVE: To study the cost-effectiveness of different deworming schemes in demonstration plots of integrated control of parasitic diseases. METHODS: The cost-effectiveness was analyzed between mass drug administration and drug administration to focal population according to the different infection rates of parasites. RESULTS: In the demonstration plots of soil-born nematodes control, the costs for reducing one infected case and the cost for reducing 1% infection rate per ten thousand people in mass drug administration groups (Group 1 and Group 2) and drug administration to focal population were 20.73, 14.42 Yuan and 14.33 Yuan, and 1 700.49, 1 503.19 Yuan and 145.41 Yuan, respectively. In the demonstration plots of control of clonorchiasis sinensis, the costs for reducing one infected case and the cost for reducing 1% infection rate per ten thousand people in mass drug administration group and drug administration to focal population were 31.03 Yuan and 37.01 Yuan, and 3 115.10 Yuan and 3841.38 Yuan, respectively. The multiple effectiveness indexes for control of soil-transmitted nematodes in the mass drug administration groups (Group 1 and Group 2) and drug administration to focal population were 76.72, 80.27 and 97.64, respectively. The multiple effectiveness indexes for control of clonorchiasis sinensis in the mass drug administration group and the drug administration to focal population group were 112.93 and 65.49, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: We should choose the deworming schemes not only to get a great reduction of human parasite infection rate and a rapid effective reduction of the source of infection, but also to make a full use of the limited funds on target population.