Malaria in Pregnancy: What Can the Social Sciences Contribute?
Open Access
- 10 April 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 4 (4) , e92
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040092
Abstract
Building on existing knowledge from social science work on malaria, the authors propose two models for studying social science aspects of malaria in pregnancy.Keywords
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