Assessing the social vulnerability to malaria in Rwanda

Malaria Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bizimana, Jean Pierre ^a   Twarabamenye, Emmanuel ^a   Kienberger, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Composite indicator; Malaria; Rwanda; Sensitivity analysis; Social vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BED NET; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREGNANCY; RISK REDUCTION; RWANDA; RWANDAN; SEX; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL VULNERABILITY; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; RWANDA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924094246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-14-2     Document Type: Article

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