The economic and social burden of malaria

Nature

Volumn 415, Issue 6872, 2002, Pages 680-685

  Sachs, Jeffrey ^a,b   Malaney, Pia ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

POVERTY;

MALARIA CONTROL;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; MALARIA; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ABSENTEEISM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALARIA; MORTALITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION GROWTH; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIETY;

COMMERCE; DEMOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALARIA; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRAVEL;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037033984     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/415680a     Document Type: Review

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