How influenza vaccination policy may affect vaccine logistics

Vaccine

Volumn 30, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 4517-4523

  Assi, Tina Marie ^a   Rookkapan, Korngamon ^b   Rajgopal, Jayant ^a   Sornsrivichai, Vorasith ^b   Brown, Shawn T ^a,c   Welling, Joel S ^c   Norman, Bryan A ^a   Connor, Diana L ^a   Chen, Sheng I ^a   Slayton, Rachel B ^a   Laosiritaworn, Yongjua ^a   Wateska, Angela R ^a   Wisniewski, Stephen R ^a   Lee, Bruce Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunization policy; Influenza vaccine; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THAILAND; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VACCINE PRODUCTION; VACCINE SUPPLY;

HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SOFTWARE; THAILAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862016836     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.04.041     Document Type: Article

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