Health Costs and Benefits of DDT Use in Malaria Control and Prevention

Health Costs and Benefits of DDT Use in Malaria Control and Prevention

The Millennium Development Goal of achieving near-zero malaria deaths by 2015 has led to a re-examination of wider use of DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) in indoor residual spraying as a prevention tool in many countries. However,...

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Main Authors:	Blankespoor, Brian, Dasgupta, Susmita, Lagnaoui, Abdelaziz, Roy, Subhendu
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ABORTION AIR ASTHMA BABIES BACK MALARIA BG BIODIVERSITY BLOOD SAMPLES BREAST CANCER BREAST MILK BURDEN OF DISEASE BURDEN OF MALARIA CANCER CANCER RESEARCH CHEMICALS CHILDHOOD DEATHS CLIMATE CLIMATES CONTROL OF MALARIA CONVULSIONS DDT DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIABETES DIAGNOSIS DIAGNOSTICS DIARRHEA DISABILITY DISEASE DISEASE PREVALENCE DISEASE REGISTRY DISEASE VECTOR DISEASES EARLY PREGNANCY ENDEMIC AREAS ENDEMIC COUNTRIES ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ETHANE ETHYLENE EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FACT SHEET FERTILITY FETUS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS GLOBAL POPULATION GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROUNDWATER HAZARD HEALTH COST HEALTH COSTS HEALTH EFFECTS HEALTH EXPENDITURES HEALTH PROBLEMS HEALTH RISKS HEALTH SERVICE HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN HEALTH HUMAN] HEALTH ILLNESS ILLNESSES INCOME INDIRECT COSTS OF MALARIA INFANT INFANT DEATHS INSECTICIDES LANDFILLS LEUKEMIA LIVER LIVER CANCER LOW BIRTH WEIGHT LUNG CANCER LYMPHOMA MALARIA MALARIA CASES MALARIA CONTROL MALARIA DEATHS MALARIA ENDEMIC COUNTRIES MALARIA INCIDENCE MALARIA REPORT MALARIA TRANSMISSION MALARIOUS AREAS MEAT MEDICAL TREATMENT MEDICINE MEDICINES MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL MORBIDITY MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY NATIONAL POPULATION NAUSEA NERVOUS SYSTEM NEUROTOXICOLOGY NUMBER OF PEOPLE NUTRITION ORGANIC POLLUTANTS ORGANOCHLORINES PANCREAS PARTICLES PATIENT PATIENTS PEDIATRICS PESTICIDES PHENOL POISONING POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION DATA POPULATION ESTIMATES POPULATION GROUPS PREGNANCIES PREGNANCY PREVALENCE PROGRESS PROSTATE PROSTATE CANCER PUBLIC HEALTH PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY RISK FACTORS RISK OF EXPOSURE SARCOMA SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE STOMACH STOMACH CANCER THERAPIES TOXIC SUBSTANCES TOXINS TRANSPORTATION TREATMENT TUMORS UMBILICAL CORD VD VECTOR CONTROL VECTORS VISION WASTE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG AGE YOUNG MEN YOUNG WOMEN
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16815583/health-costs-benefits-ddt-use-malaria-control-prevention http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12067

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16815583/health-costs-benefits-ddt-use-malaria-control-prevention
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12067