title: [Health education for major parasitic diseases in rural community of China: current status and future development].
abstract: Owing to human parasitic diseases being related to behavior, the health education as an important measure to prevent parasite infections through human behavior intervention, has played an important role in the process of parasitic disease prevention and control in rural area of China. This paper comments on the development history of the health education for parasitic disease prevention and control, current intervention modes and the effect of the health education for parasitic diseases in rural area. This paper also summarizes the role and impact of different modes of the health education for parasitic disease prevention and control and gives some suggestions to future development of the health education in rural area under current prevalent situation of parasitic diseases.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Nanchang 330046, Jiangxi, China.
authors.forename: Dan-dan
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D006266:Health Education / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D012423:Rural Health / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends