Anaemia and malaria in Yanomami communities with differing access to healthcare

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 645-652

  Grenfell, P ^a   Fanello, C I ^a   Magris, M ^b   Goncalves, J ^b   Metzger, W G ^b,c   Vivas Martinez S ^b,d   Curtis, C ^a   Vivas, L ^a  

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

^b Centro Amazonico para Investigacion y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales Simon Bolivar (CAICET)   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Access to healthcare; Anaemia; Indigenous populations; Malaria; Venezuela; Yanomami

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLENOMEGALY; VENEZUELA;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SANITATION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 46549089261     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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