Cost-effective malaria control in Brazil: Cost-effectiveness of a Malaria Control Program in the Amazon Basin of Brazil, 1988-1996

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1385-1399

  Akhavan, Dariush ^a   Musgrove, Philip ^b   Abrantes, Alexandre ^b   D'A Gusmão, Renato ^c  

^a MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; Cost effectiveness; Disease control; Lethality; Malaria

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; MEFLOQUINE;

COST; DISEASE CONTROL; MALARIA;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MORBIDITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; VECTOR CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BRAZIL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0033231886     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(99)00214-2     Document Type: Article

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