Lessons of history? Anti-malaria strategies of the International Health Board and the Rockefeller Foundation from the 1920s to the era of DDT

Public Health Reports

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 206-215

  Stapleton, Darwin H ^a  

^a Rockefeller Archive Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; CHLORPHENOTANE; INSECT REPELLENT; INSECTICIDE; MEPACRINE; QUININE;

ANOPHELES; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISTORY; INSECT CONTROL; LARVA; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SEWER; TECHNOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 2442659059     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335490411900214     Document Type: Review

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