Polio as a platform: Using national immunization days to deliver vitamin A supplements

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 305-314

  Goodman, Tracey ^a   Dalmiya, Nita ^b   De Benoist, Bruno ^a   Schultink, Werner ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of illness; Delivery of health care, integrated; Dietary supplements; Immunization programmes; Vitamin A deficiency, prevention and control; Vitamin A, therapeutic use

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RETINOL;

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; IMMUNIZATION; POLIOMYELITIS;

CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLIOMYELITIS; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW;

BIOLOGY; DEFICIENCY DISEASES--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASES; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; IMMUNIZATION; MICRONUTRIENTS; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITION PROGRAMS; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAMS; VITAMIN A; VITAMINS; WORLD;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, INACTIVATED; PROGRAM EVALUATION; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0034127856     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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