Vaccine wastage in Bangladesh

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 858-863

  Guichard, Stephane ^a   Hymbaugh, Karen ^b   Burkholder, Brent ^b   Diorditsa, Serguei ^a   Navarro, Christine ^c   Ahmed, Selina ^a   Rahman, Mohd Mahbubur ^d  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d Health Services   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Immunization; Vaccine wastage

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHEMICAL WASTE; DATA BASE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG USE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BANGLADESH; DRUG UTILIZATION; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VACCINES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 71149115057     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.08.035     Document Type: Article

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