Effect of an armed conflict on relative socioeconomic position of rural households: Case study from western Côte d'Ivoire

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fürst, Thomas ^a,b   Tschannen, Andres B ^c   Raso, Giovanna ^a,b,c,d,e   Acka, Cinthia A ^f   De Savigny, Don ^a,b   Girardin, Olivier ^g   N'Goran, Eliézer K ^c,f   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^g Fondation Rurale Interjurassienne ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; BED NET; BIOSTATISTICS; CHILD; COTE D'IVOIRE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; POVERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; WAR;

EID: 77956493394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-7-6     Document Type: Review

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