A study of the effect of educating four- to six-year-old children in mosquito control was recently conducted in a city in the state of Jalisco, western Mexico. Four neighborhood districts were selected. Children attending one kindergarten in each of two experimental districts were taught mosquito control with a video from the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA), joined to the use of the AMCA Touch Table Technique. The entomological indices monitored in the study decreased significantly (P<0.05) in houses in the experimental districts, apparently because parents acted on the comments and suggestions of the children and eliminated or monitored containers used as oviposition sites by mosquitoes. Based on these results, combining both techniques for teaching children mosquito control is a potentially useful tool for control efforts in Mexico and other places in Latin America.
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1 June 2012
Combining Two Teaching Techniques for Young Children on Aedes aegypti Control: Effects on Entomological Indices in Western Mexico
José A. Martínez-Ibarra,
Benjamín Nogueda-Torres,
Rosa M. Meda-Lara,
Oziel D. Montañez-Valdez,
Gonzalo Rocha-Chávez
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Journal of Vector Ecology
Vol. 37 • No. 1
June 2012
Vol. 37 • No. 1
June 2012
Ae. aegypti control
community participation
education
Mexico