Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of preventive zinc supplementation

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fink, Günther ^a   Heitner, Jesse ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

ALRI; Cost effectiveness; Diarrhea; Zinc supplementation

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

CHILD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; ZINC;

EID: 84906933203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-852     Document Type: Article

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