Rapid assessment of the performance of malaria control strategies implemented by countries in the Amazon subregion using adequacy criteria: Case study

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Flores, Walter ^a   Chang, Jaime ^b   Barillas, Edgar ^c  

^a Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems/Management Sciences for Health   (Guatemala)

^b Office of Health USAID Peru   (Peru)

^c MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BED NET; BOLIVIA; COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; GUYANA; HUMAN; INDOOR SPRAYING; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PERU; TIMELY DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG COMBINATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMODIUM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; BOLIVIA; COLOMBIA; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ECUADOR; GUYANA; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PERU; PLASMODIUM; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 85046944428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-379     Document Type: Article

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