Children in Poverty and Public Health : An Economic Analysis of Parasite Infection in Bangladesh

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The effectiveness of the provision of deworming drug was seen both during the project cycle and right after the project completion, using available data on a randomized-controlled health intervention project in rural Bangladesh. Regarding the impact of health education, while it has proven to be effective in raising people's knowledge and awareness for health and sanitation issues, such acquired knowledge was found to disappear relatively quickly after the project completion. As for cost-effectiveness, as it was already known from previous studies, the provision of deworming drug was highly cost-effective compared to the provision of health education. Nonetheless, such results also depend on the way in which health education is delivered, and it should not be all together regarded as something unnecessary. There is yet a need for discerning appropriate methods of delivering health education in order to achieve sustainable health improvement.