Objective:

describe the existing scientific literature regarding public health management strategies used to eliminate malaria in Latin America during the period 2010-2021.

Methodology:

scoping review. The PRISMA strategy of the WHO Cochrane group was used to monitor the process of review, extraction and analysis of the documents. The search was classified into three categories: health promotion and disease prevention, surveillance and intersectoral intervention. Five search strategies were applied in the databases: PUBMED, LILACS (VHL) and SCOPUS. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the retrieved documents was carried out.

Results:

3,628 publications were screened and 165 preselected. 19 articles were finally included. The year of greatest publication was 2021, for the category health promotion and disease prevention, for the other two categories, the same frequency of publication was observed in the year 2020. The country that published the most for the review period was Brazil, followed by Colombia and the United States.

Conclusion:

the categorization and documentary analysis reveal that isolated efforts to contribute individually to some of the aspects of the disease leave aside the multiple factors that hinder its diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control.

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