The economic costs of malaria in children in three sub-Saharan countries: Ghana, Tanzania and Kenya

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sicuri, Elisa ^a,b   Vieta, Ana ^c   Lindner, Leandro ^c   Constenla, Dagna ^d   Sauboin, Christophe ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c IQVIA   (United States)

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

^e GSK   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Costs; Malaria; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GHANA; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NEWBORN; PRODUCTIVITY; TANZANIA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TANZANIA;

EID: 84883303590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-307     Document Type: Article

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