When they don't bite, we smell money: Understanding malaria bednet misuse

Parasitology

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 580-586

  Honjo, Keita ^a   Chaves, Luis Fernando ^a,b   Satake, Akiko ^a   Kaneko, Akira ^c,d,e   Minakawa, Noboru ^e  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

insecticide treated nets; Kenya; Nash equilibrium; Pareto equilibrium; Plasmodium; poverty; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BED NET; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GAME; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KENYA; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; VANUATU;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; GAME THEORY; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; KENYA; MALARIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; POVERTY; VANUATU;

EID: 84875188417     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182012002077     Document Type: Article

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