The economic impact of malaria in Africa: a critical review of the evidence.

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Published in Health Policy on January 01, 2003

Authors

Reginald Ikechukwu Chima1, Catherine A Goodman, Anne Mills

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Economics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria.

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