Afghan refugees and the temporal and spatial distribution of malaria in Pakistan

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2061-2072

  Rowland, Mark ^a,b   Rab, Mohammad Abdur ^a   Freeman, Tim ^a   Durrani, Naeem ^a   Rehman, Naveeda ^c  

^a Department of Research and Development   (Netherlands)

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

^c WCIE 7HT   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Malaria; Pakistan; Refugees

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; MALARIA; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; REFUGEE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; PAKISTAN; REFUGEE;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 0036978093     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00341-0     Document Type: Note

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