Should the WHO withdraw support for mass deworming?

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005481

. 2017 Jun 8;11(6):e0005481.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005481. eCollection 2017 Jun.

Should the WHO withdraw support for mass deworming?

Kevin Croke^{1

2}, Joan Hamory Hicks³, Eric Hsu⁴, Michael Kremer⁵, Edward Miguel⁴

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¹ World Bank, Washington DC, United States of America.
² Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
³ Center for Effective Global Action, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.

PMID: 28594928
PMCID: PMC5464521
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005481

Should the WHO withdraw support for mass deworming?

Kevin Croke et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017.

. 2017 Jun 8;11(6):e0005481.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005481. eCollection 2017 Jun.

Authors

Kevin Croke^{1

2}, Joan Hamory Hicks³, Eric Hsu⁴, Michael Kremer⁵, Edward Miguel⁴

Affiliations

¹ World Bank, Washington DC, United States of America.
² Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
³ Center for Effective Global Action, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.

PMID: 28594928
PMCID: PMC5464521
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005481

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Michael Kremer declares that he is a former board member of Deworm the World, a United States non-profit organization. He has received no funding from Deworm the World. He is also a part-time employee of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which financially supports deworming activities. This paper was written in his academic capacity and USAID had no influence over the writing of this paper.

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1. Croke K, Hicks JH, Hsu E, Kremer M, Miguel E. Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition? Meta-analysis, Cost-effectiveness, and Statistical Power. NBER Working Paper #22382. 2016. http://www.nber.org/papers/w22382.
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[1] Croke K, Hicks JH, Hsu E, Kremer M, Miguel E. Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition? Meta-analysis, Cost-effectiveness, and Statistical Power. NBER Working Paper #22382. 2016. http://www.nber.org/papers/w22382.

[2] Croke K, Hicks JH, Hsu E, Kremer M, Miguel E. Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition? Meta-analysis, Cost-effectiveness, and Statistical Power. NBER Working Paper #22382. 2016. http://www.nber.org/papers/w22382.

[3] Ahuja A, Baird S, Hicks JH, Kremer M, Miguel E, Powers S. When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming. The World Bank Economic Review. 2015;29(suppl 1):S9–S24. Available from: https://academic.oup.com/wber/article/29/suppl_1/S9/1686594/When-Should-....

[4] Ahuja A, Baird S, Hicks JH, Kremer M, Miguel E, Powers S. When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming. The World Bank Economic Review. 2015;29(suppl 1):S9–S24. Available from: https://academic.oup.com/wber/article/29/suppl_1/S9/1686594/When-Should-....

[5] Taylor-Robinson DC, Maayan N, Soares-Weiser K, Donegan S, Garner P. Deworming drugs for soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on nutritional indicators, haemoglobin, and school performance (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2015; 7. - PMC - PubMed

[6] Taylor-Robinson DC, Maayan N, Soares-Weiser K, Donegan S, Garner P. Deworming drugs for soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on nutritional indicators, haemoglobin, and school performance (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2015; 7. - PMC - PubMed

[7] Garner P, Taylor-Robinson DC, Sachdev HS. Commentary: Replication of influential trial helps international policy. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2015; 44(5):1599–1601. 10.1093/ije/dyv131 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[8] Garner P, Taylor-Robinson DC, Sachdev HS. Commentary: Replication of influential trial helps international policy. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2015; 44(5):1599–1601. 10.1093/ije/dyv131 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[9] Higgins JPT, Green S. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011: Version 5.1.0 [updated March 2011]. http://handbook.cochrane.org.

[10] Higgins JPT, Green S. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011: Version 5.1.0 [updated March 2011]. http://handbook.cochrane.org.

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