Economics and its contribution to the fight against malaria

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 391-398

  Foster, S ^a   Phillips, M ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; MEFLOQUINE;

ABSENTEEISM; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CASE FINDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MALARIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0031837242     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989859375     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. BRINKMANN, U. & BRINKMANN, A. (1991). Malaria and health in Africa: the present situation and epidemiological trends. Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 42, 204-213.
2. KAEWSONTHI, S. (1989). Internal and External Costs of Malaria Surveillance in Thailand. Social and Economic Research Report No. 6. Document TDR/SER/PRS/6. Geneva: World Health Organization.
3. MILLS, A. J. (1992). The economic evaluation of malaria control technologies: the case of Nepal. Social Science and Medicine, 34, 965-972.
4. NAJERA, J. A., LIESE, B. H. & HAMMER, J. (1992). Malaria: New Patterns and Perspectives. Technical Paper No. 183. Washington, DC: World Bank.
5. PHILLIPS, M. & PHILLIPS-HOWARD, P. (1996). Economic implications of resistance to antimalarial drugs. Pharmacoeconomics, 10, 225-238.
6. SAUNDERSON, P. R. (1995). An economic evaluation of alternative programme designs for tuberculosis control in rural Uganda. Social Science and Medicine, 40, 1203-1212.
7. SRIVASTAVA, R. (1987). Economic Evaluation of an Alternative Malaria Control Strategy. Draft. October 1987. Delhi: Malaria Research Centre.
8. WORLD BANK (1993). World Development Report: Investing in Health. New York: Oxford University Press.