Spatial effects of the social marketing of insecticide-treated nets on malaria morbidity

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-18

  Abdulla, S ^a   Gemperli, A ^b   Mukasa, O ^a   Schellenberg, J R M Armstrong ^b   Lengeler, C ^b   Vounatsou, P ^b   Smith, T ^b  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Malaria; Marketing; Nets; Spatial effects; Treated

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ANEMIA; IMPREGNATED BEDNET; INSECTICIDE; MALARIA; MARKETING;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INSECTICIDE TREATED NET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MARKETING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARASITEMIA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL MARKETING; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TANZANIA;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PARASITEMIA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL MARKETING; TANZANIA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WORLD;

EID: 13244290218     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2004.01354.x     Document Type: Article

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