Inappropriate measures of population health for parasitic disease?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 393-395

  Payne, Robert J H ^a   Turner, Laura ^a   Morgan, Eric R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DISABILITY; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MORBIDITY; NEMATODIASIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARASITISM; PARASITOSIS; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69449086933     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2009.05.013     Document Type: Note

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