Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT.
Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Yale J Biol Med. 2020 Sep 30;93(4):579-585. eCollection 2020 Sep.
Not only do epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), and the current Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) cause the loss of millions of lives, but they also cost the global economy billions of dollars. Consequently, there is an urgent need to formulate interventions that will help control their spread and impact when they emerge. The education of young girls and women is one such historical approach. They are usually the vulnerable targets of disease outbreaks - they are most likely to be vehicles for the spread of epidemics due to their assigned traditional roles in resource-limited countries. Based on our work and the work of others on educational interventions, we propose six critical components of a cost-effective and sustainable response to promote girl-child education in resource-limited settings.
不仅艾滋病、埃博拉病毒病（EVD）和当前的冠状病毒病（COVID-19）等流行病导致数百万人丧生，还使全球经济损失数十亿美元。因此，迫切需要制定干预措施，以帮助控制它们在出现时的传播和影响。对年轻女孩和妇女的教育就是这样一种历史方法。在资源有限的国家，由于她们被赋予的传统角色，她们通常是疾病爆发的脆弱目标——她们最有可能成为传染病传播的媒介。基于我们的工作和其他人在教育干预方面的工作，我们提出了在资源有限的环境中促进女童教育的具有成本效益和可持续性的应对措施的六个关键组成部分。
