DDT and malaria prevention

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tren, Richard ^a   Roberts, Donald ^b  

^a Africa Fighting Malaria   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; INSECTICIDE;

BUDGET; CASE STUDY; DECENTRALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INSECT; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LACTATION; LETTER; LEUKEMIA; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SOIL; SPERM; SURVIVAL; VECTOR CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA;

EID: 77149162352     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901276     Document Type: Letter

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