Balancing risks on the backs of the poor

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 729-731

  Attaran, Amir ^a   Roberts, Donald R ^b   Curtis, Chris F ^c   Kilama, Wenceslaus L ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

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

^d C26/27 Tanzania Commn Sci T   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE;

ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LAW; NOTE; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPICS;

ANIMALS; DDT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 0033929055     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/77438     Document Type: Note

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