A qualitative assessment of the context and enabling environment for the control of Taenia solium infections in endemic settings
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases·
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009470
- PMID
- 34115758
- PMCID
- PMC8221787
- OpenAlex
- W3170560381
- Study type
- Systematic review
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Article type
- journal-article
- Integrity
- current
Why this research matters now
T. solium is a major foodborne disease by burden causing taeniasis, neurocysticercosis, and porcine cysticercosis. The study emphasizes the importance of multi-sectoral collaboration through a One Health approach and may guide future disease control programme research and scale-up.
Structured evidence summary
Research question
The study examined contextual factors and the enabling environment that influence the success or failure of Taenia solium control programmes in endemic areas.
Study design
A mixed-methods study combining systematic literature review (registered at PROSPERO CRD42019138107, following PRISMA guidelines) with key informant interviews of researchers and implementers from included studies.
Population and setting
The review analyzed 41 publications reporting T. solium control programmes in endemic settings, categorized as efficacy (10), effectiveness (28), and scale-up or implementation (3) studies.
Main findings
Contextual factors identified included epidemiological, socioeconomic, cultural, geographical, environmental, service, organizational, historical, and financial dimensions. The enabling environment was primarily shaped by policies and strategies supporting T. solium control. Failure to consider these contextual factors in target sites led to implementation and evaluation challenges that negatively affected outcomes.
Public-health relevance
T. solium is a major foodborne disease by burden causing taeniasis, neurocysticercosis, and porcine cysticercosis. The study emphasizes the importance of multi-sectoral collaboration through a One Health approach and may guide future disease control programme research and scale-up.
Important limitations
This summary is limited to the supplied single-article abstract and metadata and requires the original paper for decision-grade interpretation.
GIDS interpretation
This systematic review on Taenia solium control contextual factors would be discoverable through queries on taeniasis, cysticercosis, health policy, One Health approaches, or control programme implementation in endemic settings. The study provides methodological guidance rather than surveillance data on disease occurrence.
Related GIDS surveillance
Literature context does not validate, explain, or change a surveillance signal. Exact and contextual relationships are shown separately.
Evidence relationships
This article has 9 auditable classifier relationships to diseases, places, topics, and study design.