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. |