Quantifying child mortality reductions related to measles vaccination

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Goldhaber Fiebert, Jeremy D ^a,b   Lipsitch, Marc ^b   Mahal, Ajay ^b   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^c   Salomon, Joshua A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED NATIONS; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; UNITED NATIONS; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 78149491592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013842     Document Type: Article

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