Strategies to Improve Child Immunization via Antenatal Care Visits in India: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Dixit, Priyanka ^a   Dwivedi, Laxmi Kant ^a   Ram, Faujdar ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PROPENSITY SCORE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS; AMBULATORY CARE; CHILD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OFFICE VISITS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PROPENSITY SCORE;

EID: 84879129607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066175     Document Type: Article

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