Geographical disparities in core population coverage indicators for roll back malaria in Malawi
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Geographical disparities in core population coverage indicators for roll back malaria in Malawi
BACKGROUND Implementation of known effective interventions would necessitate the reduction of malaria burden by half by the year 2010. Identifying geographical disparities of coverage of these interventions at small area level is useful to inform where greatest scaling-up efforts should be concentrated. They also provide baseline data against which future scaling-up of interventions can be comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-6-5