Indicators to assess national immunization technical advisory groups (NITAGs)

Vaccine

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 2653-2657

  Blau, Julia ^a   Sadr Azodi, Nahad ^b   Clementz, Marine ^a   Abeysinghe, Nihal ^b   Cakmak, Niyazi ^b   Duclos, Philippe ^b   Janusz, Cara ^c   Jauregui, Barbara ^c   Mihigo, Richard ^b   Mosina, Liudmila ^b   Takashima, Yoshihiro ^b   Senouci, Kamel ^a  

^a Agence de Medecine Preventive   (France)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Advisory committee; Decision making; Evidence based medicine; Health policy; Immunization; Indicators; Monitoring and evaluation; National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG)

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; IMMUNIZATION; NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DECISION MAKING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; UNITED STATES; VACCINES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84878357537     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.01.047     Document Type: Article

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