Determinants of Health Disparities: The Perennial Struggle against Polio in Nigeria
Determinants of Health Disparities: The Perennial Struggle against Polio in Nigeria
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健康差异的决定因素：尼日利亚与脊髓灰质炎的长期斗争
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
N. Osazuwa
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作者：
N. Osazuwa
脊髓灰质炎仍然是一个全球性的公共卫生问题，尽管它已经从世界上大多数国家根除，但像尼日利亚这样的国家，地球上最大的黑人国家，威胁着从地球表面彻底根除脊髓灰质炎的梦想。野生脊髓灰质炎病毒的传播在尼日利亚从未被消除，但更糟糕的是，撒哈拉以南非洲和世界各地的许多国家最近再次感染了来自尼日利亚北方的脊髓灰质炎病毒株。虽然关于尼日利亚的小儿麻痹症斗争已经有很多记录，但在这个问题上很少有人注意的一个方面是尼日利亚南部和北方之间的种族和地理差异。了解尼日利亚脊髓灰质炎病毒传播中的这些差异以及尼日利亚北方流行的健康问题的社会决定因素，将有助于政府和其他利益攸关方以及决策者协同努力，打击这一长期存在的祸害。
Polio remains a global public health issue, and even though it has been eradicated from most countries of the world, countries like Nigeria, the largest black nation on earth, threatens the dream of total eradication of polio from the surface of the earth. Transmission of wild polio virus has never been eliminated in Nigeria, but even worse is the number of countries, both in Sub-Saharan Africa and all over the world that has become re-infected by polio virus strains from Northern Nigeria in recent past. Although a lot has been documented about the Nigerian polio struggle, one aspect that has received little attention on this issue is ethnic and geographic disparities between the Southern and the Northern parts of Nigeria. Understanding these disparities involved in polio virus transmission in Nigeria, as well as the social determinants of health prevalent in Northern Nigeria will help government and other stakeholders and policy makers to synergize their efforts in the fight against this perennial scourge.