Mothers' knowledge about EPI and its relation with age-appropriate vaccination of infants in peri-urban Karachi

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 940-944

  Siddiqi, Nazish ^a   Siddiqi, Azfar e Alam ^a   Nisar, Nighat ^b   Khan, Altaf ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JINNAH SINDH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIPHTHERIA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MOTHER; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; TETANUS; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; PAKISTAN; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBURBAN HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 78149246231     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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