Migration and immunization: Determinants of childhood immunization uptake among socioeconomically disadvantaged migrants in Delhi, India

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1326-1332

  Kusuma, Yadlapalli S ^a   Kumari, Rita ^a   Pandav, Chandrakant S ^a   Gupta, Sanjeev K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Child health; Determinants; Immunization; India; Internal migration; Migrants

Indexed keywords

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

CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; DATABASE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMUNIZATION; INTERNAL MIGRATION; INVESTMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; SERVICE PROVISION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VACCINE;

ADULT; ALIENATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIPHTHERIA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INCOME; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INDIA; INFANT; MATERNAL AGE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

DELHI; INDIA;

EID: 79251481870     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02628.x     Document Type: Article

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