Vaccine safety perceptions and experience with adverse events following immunization in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: A summary of key informant interviews and focus groups

Vaccine

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3536-3543

  Fowler, Gabrielle L ^a   Kennedy, Allison ^a   Leidel, Laura ^a   Kohl, Katrin S ^a   Khromava, Alena ^b   Bizhanova, Gulnar ^c   Shui, Irene ^d   Gust, Deborah ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Sanofi Pasteur   (Canada)

^c BRiF Central Asia   (Kazakhstan)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes and beliefs; Focus groups; Vaccine safety

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONVULSION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DIPHTHERIA; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG QUALITY; DRUG SAFETY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJECTION SITE ERYTHEMA; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INJECTION SITE SWELLING; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; KAZAKHSTAN; LEG SWELLING; MUMPS; MUSCLE SPASM; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERTUSSIS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN SCAR; TEMPERATURE; TETANUS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UZBEKISTAN; VACCINATION; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INTERVIEWS; KAZAKHSTAN; MIDDLE AGED; UZBEKISTAN; VACCINES;

EID: 34147152929     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.01.082     Document Type: Article

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