Routine vaccination coverage in low-and middle-income countries: Further arguments for accelerating support to child vaccination services

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tao, Wenjing ^a   Petzold, Max ^b   Forsberg, Birger C ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Child; Data collection; Developing countries; Health care surveys; Immunization programs; Immunization schedule; Infant; Vaccination; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880174431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.20343     Document Type: Article

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