Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its … households in 1,507 clusters helps evaluate this in the context of Zambia's cotton outgrowing industry. But despite large health … tend to strike a discord with recent evidence on the agricultural productivity effects of malaria control …

spraying may have made the problem of malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an … increase in private health investments …

effects by workers' revealed health status. For workers who test positive for malaria, the treatment of illness increases … prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and choice of job tasks among workers by … reducing physical capacity. This study identifies the impact of malaria on worker earnings, labor supply, and daily …

Using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, this paper studies the … this variation (differential population characteristics, differential health worker characteristics, and differential … development policy evaluations and, specifically, for the ability of the health system to benefit from limited non-state capacity …

Malaria continues to be a prominent global public health challenge, in part because of the slow population adoption of … include supportive supervision of community health workers and community mobilization promoting appropriate health seeking …. Program effects were identified through a randomized cluster trial comprising 120 villages from two purposively chosen malaria …

This paper investigates the effects of intermittent screening and treatment of malaria on the health and education of … school children in an area of low-to-moderate malaria transmission. A cluster randomized trial was implemented with 5 … randomly selected from classes 1 and 5 who were followed up twice across 24 months. Once during each school term, public health …

malaria control. The net health benefits of reintroducing DDT in malaria control programs could be better understood by …The Millennium Development Goal of achieving near-zero malaria deaths by 2015 has led to a re-examination of wider use …, the use of DDT raises concerns of potential harm to the environment and human health, mainly because of the persistent and …

The government provision of free or subsidized bed nets to combat malaria in Benin allows the identification of new … nets and the hazards of malaria place a higher value on bed nets. Local government officials exercise significant … health good (bed nets) -- but not their ability to extract greater benefits from government …