Assessment of the quality of immunization data produced by the national individual registration system in Uruguay, 2006

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 153-160

  Ronveaux, Olivier ^a   Arrieta, Fernando ^b   Curto, Sergio ^b   Laurani, Hilda ^b   Danovaro Holliday, M Carolina ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Comisión Honoraria para la Lucha Antituberculosa y Enfermedades Prevalentes ^*  (Uruguay)

^c PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection; Health surveys; Immunization; Information systems; Registries; Uruguay

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATABASE; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; IMMUNIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; RESEARCH PROGRAM; VACCINATION;

SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

ARTICLE; CHILD; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; REGISTER; STANDARD; STATISTICS; URUGUAY;

CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REGISTRIES; URUGUAY;

EID: 70350314970     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: 16805348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1020-49892009000800008     Document Type: Article

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