Does reducing malaria improve household living standards?
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Does reducing malaria improve household living standards?
Living in malaria-endemic regions places an economic burden on households even if they do not actually suffer an episode of malaria. Households living in endemic malarial regions are less likely to have access to economic opportunities and may have to modify agricultural practices and other household behaviour to adapt to their disease environment. Data from Vietnam demonstrate that reductions ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine and International Health
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1360-2276,1365-3156
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01171.x