A number of you have asked for an episode on worm wars. Others of you will have literally no idea what worm wars is. This episode is for both groups. Worm wars are the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.
For those of you who would like to read more:
- Soil-transmitted helminth infections
- Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities
- Outcome: The Expert Panel Findings
- Deworming school children in developing countries
- Re-analysis of health and educational impacts of a school-based deworming programme in western Kenya: a pure replication
- Estimating deworming school participation impacts and externalities in Kenya: A Comment on Aiken et al. (2014)
- Mapping the Worm Wars: What the Public Should Take Away from the Scientific Debate about Mass Deworming
- Re-analysis of health and educational impacts of a school-based deworming programme in western Kenya: a statistical replication of a cluster quasi-randomized stepped-wedge trial
- Commentary: Deworming externalities and schooling impacts in Kenya: a comment on Aiken et al. (2015) and Davey et al. (2015)
- Dear journalists and policymakers: What you need to know about the Worm Wars
