PROTHERO R M
Bull World Health Organ. 1961;24(4-5):405-25.
Population movements of various kinds are among the outstanding demographic features of the African continent and entail serious difficulties for malaria eradication. The majority of these movements are free and uncontrolled and are frequently inter-territorial in nature, hampering nation-wide or more limited malaria eradication projects and resulting in much reinfection.The author examines in some detail the types of population movements and their relationship to malaria problems in the Republic of Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, East Africa, Zanzibar, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Nigeria and Ghana. He concludes that these movements cannot be stopped and must be taken into account in planning malaria eradication programmes. More information on them and on the complex relationships between parasites, vectors and human beings is required, and inter-territorial co-operation is essential in obtaining this information and in planning.
各类人口流动是非洲大陆显著的人口特征之一，给疟疾根除工作带来了严重困难。这些流动大多是自由且不受控制的，而且常常具有跨地区性质，妨碍了全国性或范围较有限的疟疾根除项目，并导致大量再次感染。作者较为详细地研究了苏丹共和国、埃塞俄比亚、索马里、东非、桑给巴尔、罗德西亚与尼亚萨兰联邦、尼日利亚和加纳的人口流动类型及其与疟疾问题的关系。他得出结论，这些流动无法阻止，在规划疟疾根除项目时必须予以考虑。需要更多关于这些流动以及寄生虫、病媒和人类之间复杂关系的信息，而跨地区合作对于获取这些信息和进行规划至关重要。
