When should vaccine be used in cholera-endemic areas?

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 299-303

  Sack, David A ^a  

^a ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE; INACTIVATED VACCINE;

CHOLERA; COMPUTER MODEL; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REFUGEE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; MASS IMMUNIZATION; NOTE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREVALENCE; SAFETY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CHOLERA; CHOLERA VACCINES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MASS IMMUNIZATION; PREVALENCE; SAFETY; VACCINES, INACTIVATED; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 1542620676     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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