The economic payoffs of integrated malaria control in the Zambian copperbelt between 1930 and 1950

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 657-677

  Utzinger, Jürg ^a   Tozan, Yesim ^b   Doumani, Fadi ^c   Singer, Burton H ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Copper extraction; Cost effectiveness; Economics; Environmental management; Industrial setting; Integrated control; Labour force and working capacity; Malaria; Zambia

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

COPPER; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MALARIA; MINING INDUSTRY;

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; BED NET; COMMUNITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXTRACTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MINING; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL ASPECT; ZAMBIA;

ABSENTEEISM; ANIMALS; COPPER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISABLED PERSONS; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; INCOME; MALARIA; MINING; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; ZAMBIA;

ZAMBIA;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036421482     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2002.00916.x     Document Type: Article

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