Abstract
Qi Gao and colleagues describe China's 1-3-7 strategy for eliminating malaria: reporting of malaria cases within one day, their confirmation and investigation within three days, and the appropriate public health response to prevent further transmission within seven days.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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China / epidemiology
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Disease Eradication / statistics & numerical data*
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Epidemiological Monitoring*
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Health Communication*
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Health Plan Implementation
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Humans
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Malaria / epidemiology*
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Malaria / prevention & control*
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Research Report
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Time Factors
Grants and funding
This work was supported by the Jiangsu Province's Medical High Tech Platform (ZX201108), the Jiangsu Province's Construction Project (BM2009902), the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN), and the Program for National S & T Major Program (No. 2012ZX10004-220) to JC, HZ, YL, and QG. HJWS and RDG are supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [#OPP1013170]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.