Effectiveness of planning and management interventions for improving age-appropriate immunization in rural India

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 97-103

  Prinja, Shankar ^a   Gupta, Madhu ^a   Singh, Amarjeet ^a   Kumar, Rajesh ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE;

ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMANAGEMENT; DECENTRALIZATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; IMMUNIZATION; PLANNING SYSTEM; RURAL AREA; VACCINATION; VACCINE; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECENTRALIZATION; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERTUSSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; TETANUS; THERAPY DELAY;

AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; FEMALE; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MOTHERS; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

HARYANA; INDIA;

EID: 75649141648     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.08.059543     Document Type: Article

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