Comparison of Lives Saved Tool model child mortality estimates against measured data from vector control studies in sub-Saharan Africa

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages

  Larsen, David A ^a   Friberg, Ingrid K ^b   Eisele, Thomas P ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALARIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79954491999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-S3-S34     Document Type: Article

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