Assessment of vaccine coverage of schoolchildren in three primary health care areas in rural Crete, Greece

Family Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 443-448

  Lionis, Christos ^a   Chatziarsenis, Marios ^a,b   Antonakis, Nick ^a   Gianoulis, Yanna ^a   Fioretos, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Hosp Hlth Ctr of Neapolis Lasithi   (Greece)

Author keywords

Assessment; General practice; Schoolchildren; Vaccine coverage

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; HEPATITIS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; GREECE; HEPATITIS B; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL RECORD; MUMPS; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RUBELLA; SCHOOL CHILD; TETANUS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0031775327     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/15.5.443     Document Type: Article

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