Cost effectiveness of community-based and in-patient therapeutic feeding programs to treat severe acute malnutrition in Ethiopia

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tekeste, Asayehegn ^a   Wondafrash, Mekitie ^a   Azene, Girma ^a   Deribe, Kebede ^a  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Community based therapeutic care; Cost effectiveness; Severe acute malnutrition; Therapeutic feeding center

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHIOPIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 84858331269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-10-4     Document Type: Article

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