Somalia: Supporting the child survival agenda when routine health service is broken

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 205, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Mirza, Imran Raza ^a   Kamadjeu, Raoul ^b   Assegid, Kebede ^b   Mulugeta, Abraham ^b  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RETINOL; TETANUS TOXOID;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOMALIA; SURVIVAL; TETANUS; URBAN AREA;

CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEASLES VACCINE; SOMALIA;

EID: 84856918445     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir776     Document Type: Article

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