Global public health mandates in a diverse world: The polio eradication initiative and the expanded programme on immunization in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Health Policy

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-345

  Bonu, Sekhar ^a   Rani, Manju ^b   Razum, Oliver ^c  

^a ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (Philippines)

^b Indian Administrative Services   (India)

^c Im Neuenheimer Feld 324 ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

EPI; National immunization days; Polio eradication program; Social inequities; South Asia; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ERADICATION THERAPY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; KENYA; MALAWI; NIGERIA; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH ASIA; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; URBAN POPULATION; ZIMBABWE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFANT; MALE; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 5444244451     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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