Evaluating the effectiveness of IPTi on malaria using routine health information from sentinel health centres in southern Tanzania

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Willey, Barbara A ^a   Armstrong Schellenberg, Joanna Rm ^a   Maokola, Werner ^b   Shirima, Kizito ^b   Chemba, Mwajuma ^b   Mshinda, Hassan ^b   Alonso, Pedro ^c   Tanner, Marcel ^d,e   Schellenberg, David ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA POLIOMYELITIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEMOGLOBIN; MEASLES VACCINE; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; TANZANIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG COMBINATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION;

ANEMIA; ANTIMALARIALS; COMORBIDITY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PYRIMETHAMINE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SULFADOXINE; TANZANIA;

EID: 79851509230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-41     Document Type: Article

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