The contribution of health-care services to a sound and sustainable malaria-control policy

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 99-102

  Moerman, Filip ^a   Lengeler, C ^b   Chimumbwa, J ^c   Talisuna, A ^c   Erhart, A ^a   Coosemans, M ^a   D'Alessandro, U ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0037308076     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(03)00518-8     Document Type: Review

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