Benefits of routine immunizations on childhood survival in Tari, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 138-148

  Lehmann, Deborah ^a,b   Vail, John ^a   Firth, Martin J ^b   de Klerk, Nicholas H ^b   Alpers, Michael P ^a,c  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BCG; Childhood immunization; DTP vaccine; Immunization programmes; Measles vaccine; Mortality; Papua New Guinea; Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine; Propensity score; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS POLYSACCHARIDE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; VACCINE;

CHILD HEALTH; IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL; VACCINATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PERTUSSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

BCG VACCINE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEASLES VACCINE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

MELANESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS; TARI; WORLD;

MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG;

EID: 14844293900     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyh262     Document Type: Article

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