Vaccine coverage with hepatitis B and other vaccines in the Colombian Amazon: Do health worker knowledge and perception influence coverage?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 322-329

  De La Hoz, Fernando ^a,c   Perez, Ligia ^b   Wheeler, Jeremy G ^c   De Neira, Marlen ^a,c   Hall, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b University of Cambridge ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colombia; Coverage; Evaluation; Health service; Hepatitis B; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; VACCINE;

HEPATITIS; VACCINATION;

CAREGIVER; CHILD; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; POLIOMYELITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SECURITY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLOMBIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; MALE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; VACCINATION;

AMAZONIA; COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG;

EID: 17644404776     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01399.x     Document Type: Review

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