Local Resistance to the Global Eradication of Polio: Newspaper Coverage of the 2003-2004 Vaccination Stoppage in Northern Nigeria

Health Communication

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 743-753

  Olufowote, James Olumide ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; NIGERIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLIOMYELITIS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VACCINATION;

CULTURE; DISEASE ERADICATION; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; NEWSPAPERS; NIGERIA; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINES; TETANUS TOXOID; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84859050814     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2011.566830     Document Type: Article

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