The impact of an immunization programme administered through the Growth Monitoring Programme Plus as an alternative way of implementing Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses in urban-slum areas of Lusaka, Zambia

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 577-582

  Igarashi, Kumiko ^a   Sasaki, Satoshi ^a   Fujino, Yasuyuki ^b   Tanabe, Naohito ^a   Muleya, Clara Mbwili ^c   Tambatamba, Bushimbwa ^c   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Child health services; IMCI; Immunization; Primary health care; Vaccine; Zambia

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIPHTHERIA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POVERTY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA; ZAMBIA;

EID: 77955560787     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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