Open AccessMALARIA AS A PUBLIC HEALTH AND ECONOMIC PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES
Author(s) -
John W. Trask
Publication year - 1916
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.6.12.1290
Subject(s) - malaria , public health , disease , environmental health , distribution (mathematics) , medicine , political science , immunology , pathology , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Malaria constitutes one of the big national health problems, and because it is a common disease, it receives less consideration than many other diseases less destructive. Doctor Trask here discusses the past and present distribution of this disease and the necessity for an organized fight against it.