Are vaccination sites in Bangladesh scale efficient?

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 692-697

  Valdmanis, Vivian ^a   Walker, Damian ^a   Fox Rushby, Julia ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Immunization; Scale

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA REDUCTION; IMMUNIZATION; SAMPLING; VACCINES;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; VACCINATION;

HEALTH CARE;

VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; VACCINATION;

EID: 1642506572     PISSN: 02664623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266462303000655     Document Type: Article

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