From strategy development to routine implementation: The cost of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants for malaria control

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Manzi, Fatuma ^a,b   Hutton, Guy ^b   Schellenberg, Joanna ^a,c   Tanner, Marcel ^b   Alonso, Pedro ^d   Mshinda, Hassan ^a   Schellenberg, David ^a,c  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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

^d INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; FANSIDAR; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD CARE; CONSULTATION; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROPHYLAXIS; SOCIAL WELFARE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VACCINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG COMBINATION; ECONOMICS; INTERVIEW; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; TANZANIA;

ANTIMALARIALS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PYRIMETHAMINE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SULFADOXINE; TANZANIA;

EID: 50849105761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-165     Document Type: Article

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