Cost effectiveness of community-based therapeutic care for children with severe acute malnutrition in Zambia: decision tree model
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
- Vol. 7 (1) , 2
Abstract
Children aged under five years with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in Africa and Asia have high mortality rates without effective treatment. Primary care-based treatment of SAM can have good outcomes but its cost effectiveness is largely unknown.Keywords
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