Activity

Good practice

Bad practice

Environmental management

Determining local ecology of immature stages as a basis for choosing the most appropriate interventions

Integrating dengue control with sanitation, solid waste disposal, water supply services and other vector and pest control programs

Investing disproportionately in chemical control methods when affordable and more sustainable environmental management solutions are available.

Responding primarily to outbreaks and not investing in sustained vector control measures.

Chemical control

Using insecticides judiciously

Using chemical control methods without

Evaluating efficacy and cost-effectiveness, and

Without monitoring local vector susceptibility.

Municipal services

Intersectoral collaboration on urban development or renewal to minimize the availability of larval habitats of dengue vectors and vectors of other diseases

Social marketing of larvicides for water-storage containers, with consequent low coverage rates.

Entomological monitoring and surveillance

Monitoring of vector populations to target

Control in time and space and to provide feedback for program adjustment

Generating routine entomological surveillance data that are not analyzed or utilized in a timely and efficient manner for management decision-making.