The cost of large-scale school health programmes which deliver anthelmintics to children in Ghana and Tanzania

Acta Tropica

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 183-204

  Partnership For Child Development, The ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthelmintics; Cost analysis; Ghana; Health; School; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; PRAZIQUANTEL;

CHILD HEALTH; DRUG PRESCRIBING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; EDUCATION; GHANA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; TANZANIA; TRAINING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; GHANA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PRAZIQUANTEL; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; TANZANIA;

GHANA; TANZANIA;

NEMATODA;

EID: 0345712402     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(99)00028-5     Document Type: Article

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