Arata Kochi
Arata Kochi (
Tuberculosis
[edit]Kochi is credited with promoting the Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) -the internationally recommended strategy for TB control that is recognized as a highly efficient and cost-effective strategy - for controlling TB as the most effective public health intervention of the decade, and after 1995 establishing more effective malaria control norms after 2005.
Malaria
[edit]References
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大阪 からの報告 (1)「社会 の病気 」再燃 . Yomiuri Shimbun. 14 April 2000. Retrieved 4 October 2017. - ^ Aaron Swartz: Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer? Archived 2016-01-14 at the Wayback Machine FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, 2007.
External links
[edit]- An Iron Fist Joins the Malaria Wars — by Donald G. McNeil, Jr.; from The New York Times, 27 June 2006.
- W.H.O. Supports Wider Use of DDT vs. Malaria — by Celia W. Dugger; from The New York Times, 16 September 2006.
- ARATA KOCHI PROFILE: Fighting Words From WHO's New Malaria Chief — by John Bohannon; from Science, 3 February 2006.
- Dots strategy for control of tuberculosis epidemic
- Kochi's tuberculosis strategy article is a 'classic' by any definition - by John A. Sbarbaro, Bulletin of the World Health Organization vol.79 no.1 Genebra 2001