Dengue Fever: Global Health Problem and Community-Based Solutions

Running head: DENGUE- GLOBAL HEALTH
Dengue- global health
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DENGUE- GLOBAL HEALTH
1) Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease that concentrated in the tropics. The problem was
important because the massive insecticides based effort was given to the dengue-transmitting
mosquito, Aedes aegypt that was successfully eliminated from Latin America. However, due to
rapid urbanization, the dengue fever emerged worsen than the previous one and resulted in
approximately 25000 to 50000 deaths a year (Gilden, 2018). It lays eggs in the public water
supply, which can be prevented by pesticides, but pesticides cause the toxicity. The problem is
predominating because in severe cases dengue causes hemorrhagic fever and it has no specific
treatment (Frank et al., 2016). The supportive care by the hospital only reduces the hemorrhagic
fever related to mortality rate
2) Dengue specialist recent decade identified the importance of controlling dengue fever.
Therefore, community participation model by Camino Verde is on trial for reducing the dengue
(Gilden, 2018). The main challenges of the program are that although the program involved the
communities but did not give instruction communities what to do rather it shows how to do and
why (Frank et al., 2016). State programs around the world never explained anything rather
programs instructed to scrub the water barrels and spray them. Mexico and Nicaragua have two
different political culture which causes a problem (Gilden, 2018). In Acapulco, the crime rate is
high and therefore people are afraid to open doors to strangers (Kutsuna et al., 2015).
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The unique features of the program are that it involves the whole community. Moreover,
anti-mosquito techniques and social mobilization, explanation of the life cycle of the mosquito,
larvae and using household tools to explain the breeding site of mosquito, sowing and selling