Willingness-to-pay for an area-wide integrated pest management program to control the Asian tiger Mosquito in New Jersey

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 225-236

  Halasa, Yara A ^a   Shepard, Donald S ^a   Wittenberg, Eve ^b   Fonseca, Dina M ^c   Farajollahi, Ary ^d   Healy, Sean ^e   Gaugler, Randy ^c   Strickman, Daniel ^f   Clark, Gary G ^g  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Mercer County Mosquito Control   (United States)

^e Monmouth County Mosquito Extermination Commission   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

attitude; control methods; health economics; KAP (knowledge; Mosquitoes; practice); prevention and control; vector biology; willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; AEDES; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIBRARY SCIENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AEDES; AGED; ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LIBRARY COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS;

EID: 84866845509     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2987/12-6243R.1     Document Type: Article

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