Risk factors for low vaccination coverage among Roma children in disadvantaged settlements in Belgrade, Serbia

Vaccine

Volumn 30, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 5459-5463

  Stojanovski, Kristefer ^a   McWeeney, Gerry ^a   Emiroglu, Nedret ^a   Ostlin, Piroska ^a   Koller, Theadora ^a   Licari, Lucianne ^a   Kaluski, Dorit Nitzan ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Birth registration; Human rights; Immunization; Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); Roma; Vaccination; Vaccine preventable diseases

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CHILD; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MUMPS; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; RISK FACTOR; RUBELLA; SERBIA; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, ORAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SERBIA; VACCINATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84864312562     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.06.072     Document Type: Article

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