Anaemia: A Useful Indicator of Neglected Disease Burden and Control
Open Access
- 14 August 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 4 (8) , e231
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040231
Abstract
The authors argue that one way of evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention aimed at controlling neglected tropical diseases would be to assess its impact on anemia prevalence.Keywords
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