Cost-effectiveness of malaria control interventions when malaria mortality is low: Insecticide-treated nets versus in-house residual spraying in India

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 525-539

  Bhatia, Mrigesh R ^a   Fox Rushby, Julia ^b   Mills, Anne ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness analysis; In house residual spraying; India; Insecticide treated nets; Malaria

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

COST; DISEASE CONTROL; IMPREGNATED BEDNET; MALARIA; SPRAY;

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEDDING AND LINENS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MOSQUITO CONTROL;

ASIA; EURASIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; SURAT;

EID: 2442582961     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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