Community-Provider Partnerships to Reduce Immunization Disparities: Field Report from Northern Manhattan

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1041-1044

  Findley, Sally E ^a   Irigoyen, Matilde ^b   See, Donna ^b   Sanchez, Martha ^a   Chen, Shaofu ^b   Sternfels, Pamela ^b   Caesar, Arturo ^b,c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Health and Hospitals Corporation ^*  (United States)

^c Health and Hospitals Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY CARE; EVALUATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEWBORN; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; SCIENCE; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VACCINATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFANT; NEW YORK CITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; VACCINATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 0041743129     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.7.1041     Document Type: Review

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