Talk:Mass deworming/Archive 1
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Are these references MEDRS?
I have removed the following lines and references, on the basis that they are a) single primary sources b) they are making medical claims and c) they are positioned in the text as being on the same level as the Cochrane review. I'd appreciate discussion as to this, but my view is that they are not MEDRS compliant. But I also see that these can also be taken to be economic claims. So.. thoughts anyone? @Doc James: JMWt (talk) 08:09, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
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A 2004 study in Kenya by Harvard economist Michael Kremer and University of California economist Edward Miguel[1] found that deworming reduces worm infections in both treated children, and untreated children living nearby (through reduced disease transmission. Additionally, deworming improves school attendance for treated and nearby untreated children. Additional studies documenting the educational and economic impact of deworming include a World Bank Economic Review paper[2] that reviews the literature.
A separate study[3] by World Bank economist Owen Ozier's shows that preschool-age Kenyan children who lived in communities where a deworming program was conducted, and thus were exposed to epidemiological spillovers, showed cognitive improvements ten years later. A randomized controlled trial[4] by Harvard researcher Kevin Coke] finds that Ugandan children randomly exposed to more years of deworming have higher test scores in literacy and numeracy 7 to 8 years later.
Miguel, Kremer, Hicks, and Baird find that 10 years after deworming, Kenyan women who were dewormed for more years as girls were 25% more likely to have attended secondary school, and men who were dewormed for more years as boys worked 17% more hours and had better labor market outcomes, including higher earnings.[5] Hoyt Bleakley finds that deworming in the U.S. in the early 1900’s lead to increased school enrollment and attendance for children, and improved literacy and income for adults who were treated as children.[6] This study is a difference-in-difference design, rather than a randomized control trial.
- ^ Kremer, Michael (December 10, 2003). "Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities". Econometrica. 72 (1). Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ Amrita, Ajuha (June 3, 2015). "When Should Governments Subsidize Health?" (PDF). The World Bank Economic Review Advance Access. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ Ozier, Owen (October 2014). "Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Deworming" (PDF). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ Coke, Kevin (July 17, 2015). "The long run effects of early childhood deworming on literacy and numeracy: Evidence from Uganda" (PDF). Working Paper, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
{{cite journal}}: horizontal tab character in|journal=at position 26 (help); horizontal tab character in|title=at position 4 (help) - ^ Sarah, Baird (July 2015). "Worms at work: Long-run impacts of a child health investment". Working Paper. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ Hoyt, Bleakley (2007). "Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South*". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 122 (1). Retrieved 28 July 2015.