Protocol for the economic evaluation of the diarrhea alleviation through zinc and oral rehydration salt therapy at scale through private and public providers in rural Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Published in Implement Sci on November 19, 2014

Authors

Samuel D Shillcutt1, Amnesty E LeFevre2, Christa L Fischer Walker3, Robert E Black4, Sarmila Mazumder5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. ssamuel7@jhu.edu.
2: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. aelefevre@jhu.edu.
3: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. cfische2@jhu.edu.
4: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. rblack1@jhu.edu.
5: Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, 45 KaluSarai, New, Delhi, 110016, India. chrd@sas.org.in.

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