Health metrics for helminth infections

Acta Tropica

Volumn 141, Issue Part B, 2015, Pages 150-160

  King, Charles H ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Burden of illness; Cost of illness; Disability; Helminthiasis; Quality of life; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

COST ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH IMPACT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ARTICLE; CYSTICERCOSIS; DISABILITY; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ENTEROBIASIS; HEALTH ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; LOIASIS; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA; NEGLECTED DISEASE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TAENIASIS; TOXOCARIASIS; TREMATODIASIS; TRICHINOSIS; TRICHURIASIS; YEARS LOST TO DISABILITY; YEARS OF LIFE LOST; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS;

VERMES;

ANIMALS; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 84916935300     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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