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Pest eradication services that are necessary to ensure the health, welfare, and safety of the chronically ill enrollee. Services may include pest control treatment(s) or products that may assist the enrollee in the pest eradication (e.g., traps, pest control sprays, cleaning supplies).
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Linking Gap and Impact
Wang C, Abou El-Nour MM, & Bennett GW
2007| Journal of Community Health| Google Scholar| 10.1007/s10900-007-9064-6
Outcome type: Favorable
Pest infestation, pesticide use, and pest allergens have health implications for residents, particularly residents with asthma.
Other
Peer Reviewed
Linking Gap and Impact
Chen H, Copes R
2010| Ontario's Public Health Agency| Google Scholar|
Outcome type: Favorable
Beg bugs can cause numerous health effects, including HBV, skin reactions, asthmatic reaction, and anemia.
Systematic Review
Linking Gap and Impact
Bazen A, Parkman K
2024| Consumer Affairs| Google Scholar|
Outcome type: Favorable
Pests can have many negative effects on both the mental and physical health of residents in infested homes, such as causing anxiety, transmitting diseases such as West Nile virus, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, and Zika, and more.
Other
Linking Intervention and Impact
Lipman SA, Burt SA
2017| PLoS One| Google Scholar| 10.1371/journal.pone.0190399
The authors measure how different rationale for pest control influenced intention to take action against pests.
Outcome type: Favorable
Interventions to encourage pest control actions should emphasize the potential health consequences of pests and reduce barriers.
Other
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Linking Intervention and Impact
Brett M, Stillman L
2009| Asthma Regional Council of New England, Boston Public Health Commission| Google Scholar|
Integrated Pest Management: a preventive pest control intervention that aims to reduce the need for pesticides and reduce allergen levels in the home.
Outcome type: Favorable
IPM is a cost-effective pest control intervention for high-risk asthma patients when compared to standard clinical methods of asthma treatment
Other
Linking Gap and Impact
National Center for Healthy Housing
N/A| National Center for Healthy Housing| Google|
Outcome type: Favorable
Cockroaches can carry disease-causing germs and their debris (old shells, saliva, body parts, and droppings) can triggers asthma attacks
Other
Linking Gap and Impact
Shah SN, Fossa A, Steiner AS, Kane J, Levy JI, Adamkiewicz G, Bennett-Fripp WM, Reid M
2018| J Urban Health| Google| 30141116| 10.1007/s11524-018-0298-7
Outcome type: Favorable
Cockroach infested residents had almost three times the odds of experiencing high depressive symptoms than those without infestation. Dual infested homes of cockroach and mice had over five times the odds of experiencing high depressive symptoms
Other
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Linking Gap and Impact
Susser SR, Perron S, Fournier M, Jacques L, Denis G, Tessier F, Roberge P
2012| BMJ Open| Google Scholar|
Outcome type: Favorable
Bed bug infestation was strongly associated with anxiety symptoms and sleep disturbances.
Other
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Linking Gap and Impact
Mekonnen D, Zenebe Y, Derbie A, Adem Y, Hailu D, Mulu W, Bereded F, Mekonnen Z, Yizengaw E, Tulu B, Biadglegne F, Mihret A, Sack U
2023| Ethiop. J. Health Dev| Google Scholar|
Outcome type: Favorable
Among the residents with bed bug infestations, social, psychological, and health impacts were recorded.
Other
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Environmental Protection Agency
2024| EPA| Google Scholar|
Outcome type: Favorable
Bed bugs can cause allergic reactions, infections of the skin, mental health impacts on people living in infested homes.
Other
Linking Gap and Impact
Ashcroft R, Seko Y, Chan LF, Dere J, Kim J, McKenzie K
2015| Int J Public Health| Google Scholar| 10.1007/s00038-015-0713-8
Outcome type: Favorable
Bed bug infestations can have adverse impacts on mental health, including severe psychiatric symptoms.
Systematic Review
Peer Reviewed
Linking Intervention and Impact
Jokić G, Blažić T, Đurović-Pejčev R, Đorđević T, Đedović S, Vukša M.
2017| Environ Sci Pollut Res Int| PubMed| 28634803| 10.1007/s11356-017-9533-0
Bergamot, lavender, and thyme essential oils were used as bait components to deter pests.
Outcome type: Neutral
Lavender and thyme oils had no effects on house mice diet. Bergamot oil showed a repellent effect.
Prospective Cohort Study
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Linking Gap and Impact
Lawangeen Z, Stein A, Haltigan E, Radhakrishnan N
2021| Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology| Google Scholar| 10.1016/j.jaad.2021.06.690
Outcome type: Favorable
The authors present evidence that bed bugs can, under the right circumstances, infest organic matter, such as human skin.
Case Study
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Linking Gap and Impact
Doggett S
2018| Google Scholar| 10.1002/9781119171539.ch12
Outcome type: Favorable
Bed bugs may carry infectious disease and have the ability to transmit diseases to humans.
Other
Linking Gap and Impact
Hubert J, Stejskal V, Athanassiou CG, Throne JE.
2018| Annu Rev Entomol| PubMed| 29324037| 10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043218
Outcome type: Favorable
Anthropod infestation can lead to food contamination and the development of fungi and microorganisms that can produce toxins that endanger human health.
Other
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Linking Gap and Impact
Sheele JM, Libertin CR, Pritt BS, Wysokinska EW, Pietri JE
2021| Heliyon| Google Scholar| 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08107
Outcome type: Favorable
Bed bug infestation are more likely for patients with positive blood cultures, blood cultures growing coagulase-negative Staphylococcus, and those diagnosed with pneumonia, with cellulitis, or who had an infectious disease consult, a chest radiograph, and higher percentages of eosinophils in the blood.
Other
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Alizadeh I, Gorouhi MA, Aghaei Afshar A, Iranpour A
2019| Electronic Physician| Google Scholar| 10.19082/7636
Outcome type: Neutral
While bed bugs do not spread disease, infestations can produce numerous issues, such as social health problems, for the infested.
Case Study
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Linking Intervention and Impact
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2024| CDC| Google|
Integrated Pest Management: an approach focusing on pest prevention, reduction, and eliminating the conditions that cause pest intervention
Outcome type: Favorable
IPM reduces the incidence of pest infestations, reducing the need to use harmful pest-control products.
Federal Policy or Report
Linking Gap and Impact
Environmental Protection Agency
2021| EPA| Google|
Outcome type: Favorable
Pests can contribute to public health issues such as vector-borne diseases, asthma and allergies, and microbial diseases and infections
Federal Policy or Report
Linking Intervention and Impact
Liu Q
2020| China CDC Wkly| Google| 10.46234/ccdcw2020.112
Sustainable Pest Management, a systematic and sustainable approach to pest management, was implemented.
Outcome type: Favorable
The intervention promotes reduction of disease, hunger, poverty, and protects the environment.
Other
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Linking Intervention and Impact
Toledo ME, Vanlerberghe V, Rosales JP, Mirabal M, Cabrera P, Fonseca V, Gómez Padrón T, Pérez Menzies M, Montada D, Van der Stuyft P.
2017| PLoS Negl Trop Dis| PubMed| 29117180| 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006031
Two types of insecticide interventions are included in this study: periodical intra- and peri-domiciliary residual insecticide treatment and long lasting insecticide treated curtains.
Outcome type: Neutral
In the first month, there was a significant decline in Aedes indices after residual insecticide treatment, but the effect did not last and overall dengue incidence was not reduced.
Randomized Controlled Trial
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