Does reducing malaria improve household living standards?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-272

  Laxminarayan, Ramanan ^a  

^a RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Cost of illness; Economic impact; Household burden; Living standards; Malaria; Panel estimation; Poverty; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; ECONOMIC IMPACT; LIVING STANDARD; MALARIA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; VIET NAM;

COST OF ILLNESS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCOME; MALARIA; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIETNAM;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 1342280405     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01171.x     Document Type: Article

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