Talk:Soil-transmitted helminthiasis

Getting lost with all these worm pages...
So we have a page on soil-transmitted helminthiasis and one on helminthiasis on its own. Is it really necessary to have both pages or could they be merged? If not to be merged then it should at least be made clear on each of the pages that the other page exists and which one is the "overarching" page so that the reader can slowly drill down rather than having all these pages "side by side" with each other. In fact I think we need a menu structure of all the intestinal parasite pages we have to far and then see if the preventention, treatment, history part of the infections can be streamlined somehow so that we don't have to write the same information (e.g. on deworming on each page). I was going to suggest we should have a deworming page and just refer to that one - in fact a page on deworming exists already. EvM-Susana (talk) 13:05, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Removed an unreferenced statement about death toll
I have just removed this sentence as I couldn't find a reference for it, also the part on relentless chronic effects seemed to be too much judgement: "Even with a global estimate of over a million deaths a year, the greatest significance of STH is the relentless chronic effects on socio-economic conditions." If a reference is identified it could go back in but under the epidemiology section. EvM-Susana (talk) 22:48, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

How much effort to put into this page given that we have the helminthiasis page ?
I just wonder how much effort we want to put into this page (regarding e.g. health impacts and epidemiology) as we likely have to write pretty much the same stuff on the helminthiasis page? Could we make it clear to the reader that more information is found on the helminthiasis page? EvM-Susana (talk) 22:48, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * STH is helminthiasis, which is parasitic disease, which in turn is an infectious disease. STH is due to specific groups of roundworms, which are nematodes, which are helminths. This is how Wikipedia works. We cannot have all the information in an article, there a brief mention in the root article and they are split up to make way for the details. As can be noticed, helminthiasis is looking a bit too long already, notwithstanding the fact that it still lacks information on wildlife helminthiasis, which itself will need a separate page. Readers are encouraged to go to linked pages, that's why internal links exist. We can't serve the entire menu in a small dish. Chhandama (talk) 03:17, 2 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, I think I understand that, but when it comes to the aspects of health impacts (e.g. malnutrition) and on epidemiology (e.g. infection estimates), the content for the page on STH is going to be very, very similar to the page on helminthiasis. Is it OK to just do a copy & paste job in that case? My tendency would be to have more information on the one page about certain aspects, and less on the other; rather than the same on both. - About the wildlife question, that's for someone else to do, not my area of expertise/professional interest, sorry. EvM-Susana (talk) 08:44, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Seminar
10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31930-X JFW &#124; T@lk  13:15, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

updates here on targets
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/soil-transmitted-helminth-infections — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.115.204.102 (talk) 22:34, 14 March 2020 (UTC)