Malaria control: Constraints and opportunities

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1042-1046

  Kager, P A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control; Economy; Malaria; Public health; Tools

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; DRUG RESISTANCE; HEALTH POLICY; MALARIA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COOPERATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INSECT CONTROL; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PERFORMANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COST; ECONOMICS; INFANT; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MOSQUITO; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

INSECTA; PROTOZOA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE;

EID: 0036886498     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2002.00981.x     Document Type: Review

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