Charting the road to eradication: Health facility data and malaria indicator generation in rural Tanzania

The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 151-187

  Gerrets, Rene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84952923745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316091265.007     Document Type: Chapter

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