Do post-disaster public health interventions impede malaria eradication?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 403-405

  Weinstein, Philip ^a   Goff, James ^b   Skelly, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Kitson House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; EDITORIAL; FLOODING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LAND USE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NATURAL DISASTER; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT FAILURE;

DISASTERS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; PUBLIC HEALTH;

PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 77649271192     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.09.055     Document Type: Editorial

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