Anaemia: a useful indicator of neglected disease burden and control

PLoS Med. 2007 Aug;4(8):e231. doi: 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.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Anemia / diagnosis
  • Anemia / epidemiology*
  • Anemia / etiology*
  • Animals
  • Developing Countries
  • Hemoglobins / analysis
  • Humans
  • Parasitic Diseases / drug therapy
  • Parasitic Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Prevalence
  • Tropical Medicine*

Substances

  • Hemoglobins