Who buys insecticide-treated nets? Implications for increasing coverage in Nigeria

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 279-289

  Onwujekwe, Obinna ^a   Hanson, Kara ^b   Fox Rushby, Julia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b Univ of Nigeria Teaching Hospital ^*

Author keywords

CVM; Insecticide treated nets; ITNs; Malaria; Nigeria; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

BED NET; CONTINGENT VALUATION; COST; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; NIGERIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PURCHASING; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEDDING AND LINENS; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; NIGERIA; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0042738051     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czg034     Document Type: Review

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