Engineering and malaria control: Learning from the past 100 years

Acta Tropica

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 99-108

  Konradsen, Flemming ^a,b   Van Der Hoek, Wim ^a   Amerasinghe, Felix P ^a   Mutero, Clifford ^a,c   Boelee, Eline ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Environmental management; Malaria; Malaysia; Punjab; Sri Lanka; Vector control; Water management

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; INSECTICIDE;

DISEASE CONTROL; ENGINEERING; MALARIA; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CONTROL SYSTEM; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; LAND DRAINAGE; LANDSCAPING; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALAYSIA; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; SANITATION; SRI LANKA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREAM (RIVER); SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; VECTOR CONTROL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MALAYSIA; PUNJAB [INDIA]; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 0347357665     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2003.09.013     Document Type: Article

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