"Roll Back Malaria, Roll in Development"? Reassessing the Economic Burden of Malaria

Population and Development Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-87

  Packard, Randall M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; MACROECONOMICS; MALARIA; MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 63149172175     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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