Cost effectiveness and cost utility of preventing trachomatous visual impairment: Lessons from 30 years of trachoma control in Burma

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 880-889

  Evans, T G ^a   Ranson, M K ^a   Kyaw, Tun Aung ^b   Ko, Chit Ko ^b  

^a HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^b Burma Trachoma Control and Prevention of Blindness Programme

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MORTALITY; MYANMAR; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRACHOMA; TRICHIASIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0029958577     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.80.10.880     Document Type: Article

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