Inequities in incidence, morbidity and expenditures on prevention and treatment of malaria in southeast Nigeria

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Uguru, Nkolika P ^a   Onwujekwe, Obinna E ^a   Uzochukwu, Benjamin S ^a   Igiliegbe, Godwin C ^b   Eze, Soludo B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b Enugu State Ministry of Health   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED NET; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; NIGERIA; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 70349784478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-9-21     Document Type: Article

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