Missed opportunities of immunization in under-fives in adopted area of Urban Health Centre

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 436-440

  Wadgave, Hanmanta V ^a   Pore, Prasad ^b  

^a Primary Health Centre   (India)

^b Bharti Vidyapith ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Education; gender; immunization; missed opportunities; socio economic group; urban slum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; TABOO; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84871871887     PISSN: 17556783     EISSN: 09746005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1755-6783.105126     Document Type: Article

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