Understandings of immunization: Some west African perspectives

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 418-

  Leach, Melissa ^a   Fairhead, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

AFRICA; AMBIVALENCE; ANXIETY; AWARENESS; COMPREHENSION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; IMMUNIZATION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROPHYLAXIS; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL ASPECT; VACCINATION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 44949156218     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.08.054726     Document Type: Editorial

References (2)

1. Leach M, Fairhead J. Vaccine anxieties: global science, child health and society. London: Earthscan Publications; 2007.
2. White L. The needle and the state: immunization and inoculation in Africa. Or, the practice of un-national sovereignty. Presented at conference: Locating the field: the ethnography of biomedical research in Africa, Kilifi, Kenya, December 2005.