Social Determinants of Infectious Diseases in South Asia

Table 4

Strategies proposed by WHO to address the social determinants of NTDs.

Number	Social determinants	Strategies
1	Potable water and sanitation	Identifying the links between social determinants of access to water and sanitation in regard to NTDs
2	Environmental factors	Showing the impact of environmental variables on NTDs
3	Health service for migrating populations	Making better policies to reduce the vulnerability of migrant labors, nomads, refugees, and disaster victims to NTDs
4	Sociocultural and gender inequality	Identifying sociocultural factors that lead to unequal access to NTDs treatment
5	Poverty	Poverty alleviation as a strategy to reduce the incidence of NTDs
6	Risk assessment and surveillance	Establishing cross-disciplinary risk assessment, surveillance systems, early warning, data accumulation, and long term planning