From their own perspective-constraints in the Polio Eradication Initiative: Perceptions of health workers and managers in a district of Pakistan's Punjab province

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mushtaq, Muhammad Umair ^a   Shahid, Ubeeracom ^a   Majrooh, Muhammad Ashraf ^a   Shad, Mushtaq Ahmad ^b   Siddiqui, Arif Mahmood ^a   Akram, Javed ^a  

^a ALLAMA IQBAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^b Government of Punjab   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECENTRALIZATION; DISEASE CONTROL; ERADICATION THERAPY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; PAKISTAN; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERCEPTION; POLIOMYELITIS; POLITICS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; VACCINATION;

EID: 77955824844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-10-22     Document Type: Article

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