Cost-effectiveness of three malaria treatment strategies in rural Tigray, Ethiopia where both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax co-dominate

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lemma, Hailemariam ^a   San Sebastian, Miguel ^b   Löfgren, Curt ^b   Barnabas, GebreAb ^a  

^a Tigray Health Bureau   (Ethiopia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79551689097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-9-2     Document Type: Article

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