Gender and willingness to pay for insecticides treated bed nets in a poor rural area in Tanzania

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 641-648

  Mujinja, P G M ^a   Makwaya, C K ^a   Sauerborn, R ^b  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCOME; MALARIA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TANZANIA;

ADULT; BEDS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCOME; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MALE; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 19644392584     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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