Concerted Efforts to Control or Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases: How Much Health Will Be Gained?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  de Vlas, Sake J ^a   Stolk, Wilma A ^a   le Rutte, Epke A ^a   Hontelez, Jan A C ^a   Bakker, Roel ^a   Blok, David J ^a   Cai, Rui ^a   Houweling, Tanja A J ^a   Kulik, Margarete C ^a,b   Lenk, Edeltraud J ^c   Luyendijk, Marianne ^c   Matthijsse, Suzette M ^a   Redekop, William K ^c   Wagenaar, Inge ^a   Jacobson, Julie ^d   Nagelkerke, Nico J D ^a   Richardus, Jan H ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEATH; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOOKWORM INFECTION; INCIDENCE; LEPROSY; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEGLECTED DISEASE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRACHOMA; TRICHURIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; YEARS LIVED WITH DISABILITY; YEARS OF LIFE LOST; DISEASE ERADICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMAN; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PROCEDURES; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

DISEASE ERADICATION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84957538279     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004386     Document Type: Article

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