The feasibility of using mobile-phone based SMS reminders and conditional cash transfers to improve timely immunization in rural Kenya

Vaccine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 987-993

  Wakadha, Hotenzia ^a   Chandir, Subhash ^b   Were, Elijah Victor ^a   Rubin, Alan ^a   Obor, David ^a   Levine, Orin S ^b   Gibson, Dustin G ^b   Odhiambo, Frank ^a   Laserson, Kayla F ^a   Feikin, Daniel R ^b,c  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional cash transfers; DTP HepB Hib; Mobile money services; RapidSMS; Reimbursement; Short message service

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIPHTHERIA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; KENYA; MOBILE PHONE; MONEY; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; PERTUSSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; RURAL AREA; TETANUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINES; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872615241     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.11.093     Document Type: Article

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