An economic evaluation of expanding hookworm control strategies to target the whole community

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Turner, Hugo C ^a,b   Truscott, James E ^a,b   Bettis, Alison A ^a,b   Shuford, Kathryn V ^a,b   Dunn, Julia C ^a,b   Hollingsworth, T Déirdre ^c,d   Brooker, Simon J ^e   Anderson, Roy M ^a,b  

^a London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community wide treatment; Cost effectiveness analysis; Hookworm; Modelling; Preventative chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CALCULATION; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CONTROL STRATEGY; COST CONTROL; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PREVENTION; SOIL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84946196221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-1187-5     Document Type: Article

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