Home delivery of heat-stable vaccines in Indonesia: Outreach immunization with a prefilled, single-use injection device

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-126

  Sutanto, A ^c   Suarnawa, I M ^c   Nelson, C M ^a   Stewart, T ^b   Soewarso, T Indijati ^c  

^a PATH   (United States)

^b MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

HEALTH CARE; IMMUNIZATION; SERVICE PROVISION; VACCINATION;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; DRUG STORAGE; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDONESIA; INJECTION; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; SYRINGE; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

AGE FACTORS; ASIA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EVALUATION; EVALUATION REPORT; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; HEPATITIS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; IMMUNIZATION; INDONESIA; INFANT; INFECTIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; SYRINGE; TETANUS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; VACCINATION; VACCINES; VIRAL DISEASES; YOUTH;

ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INDONESIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDWIFERY; SAFETY; SYRINGES; TETANUS TOXOID; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0032979578     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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