Barriers that limit the implementation of thermal fogging for the control of dengue in Colombia: a study of mixed methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Thermal fogging of Insecticides is a vector control strategy used by the Medellin Secretary of Health to combat dengue. This method is employed during outbreaks to curb populations of potentially infectious adult mosquitoes and interrupt transmission cycles. While this strategy has been used in Medellin since 2007, in some years it has not reduced dengue cases as expected. Difficulties in the implementation of fumigation strategies, such as lack of opportunity for treatment and public perception may be factors that limit its utility. The objective of this study was to identify barriers that hinder the implementation of thermal fogging, as well as attitudes and beliefs that prevent its acceptance.

Methods

We used a cross-sectional observational study of mixed metho

SUBMITTER: Usuga AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6543676 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature