Vector control elements | General description | Specific activities |
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Programme administration | • How to manage of vector control? | 1. Goal setting |
 |  | 2. Policy development |
 |  | 3. Developing staff duties |
 |  | 4. Risk management |
 |  | 5. Legislation development and enforcement |
Financial and economic assessment | • What is the economic burden of disease and how do you finance vector control? | 1. Conduct cost-effectiveness analysis |
 |  | 2. Financial planning: identifying source of revenue (i.e. taxes, lottery, income generation activities, etc.) |
Facilities and equipment | • What elements are needed to do vector control? | 1. Selecting and assigning facilities |
 |  | 2. Determining available and needed equipment |
Vector surveillance | • How to measure program effectiveness? | 1. Vector population surveillance |
Disease detection | • How to determine the quality and quantity of control efforts? | 1. Disease detection programme to monitor vector-borne disease parameters |
Control activities | • How to establish a guide to control operations that will use the most effective, yet environmentally sensitive method of vector control? | 1. Determine appropriate control methods: i) environmental management, ii) biological control, iii) chemical control, iv) legislation |
 |  | 2. Integrate efforts where possible to achieve synergy |
Public education and relations | • How to communicate and interact with community regarding vector control? | 1. Personal public education |
 |  | 2. Printed public education |
 |  | 3. Customer service |
 |  | 4. Multimedia education (i.e. TV and internet) |
 |  | 5. Community outreach |
Record/reporting/evaluation | • How to evaluate the programme and achievement of goals? | 1. Keeping, compiling and reporting activities |
 |  | 2. Summarizing annual reports and linking to goals and objectives |
 |  | 3. Analyze data to evaluate effectiveness |
 |  | 4. Model data for ecological, human, vector, disease and control trends |
Intergovernmental coordination/environmental planning | • How to coordinate activities between stakeholders, which have mutual concerns for vector control, through interagency partnerships? | 1. Contact between local and national governments |
 |  | 2. Planning between vector control staff and environmental development staff |
 |  | 3. Assessment of environmental impact related to vectors and pest |
 |  | 4. Develop relationship with conservationist and wildlife enthusiast |
Research | • How to build research to determine how local conditions are changing in response to vector control and develop new approaches for control? | 1. Incorporate applied basic research in the programme |
 |  | 2. Review research design and statistical methods |
Emergency preparedness | • How to plan on how to dealing with disease situations and natural disasters? | 1. Identify responsible agency that coordinates and communicates with the public |
 |  | 2. Develop vector and disease surveillance that provide early alert to potential emergency conditions |
 |  | 3. Key control actions to specific situation |
 |  | 4. Reserve funding for emergency situations |
Training and continuing Education | • How to mandate elements for certified personnel? | 1. Mandatory training to certify technicians each year |
 |  | 2. Establish training programmes with sufficient budget |
 |  | 3. Attend professional and society meetings |