Only adding stationary storage to vaccine supply chains may create and worsen transport bottlenecks

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 5 SUPPL. 2, 2013, Pages

  Haidari, Leila A ^a   Connor, Diana L ^a   Wateska, Angela R ^a   Brown, Shawn T ^d   Mueller, Leslie E ^a   Norman, Bryan A ^c   Schmitz, Michelle M ^a   Paul, Proma ^a   Rajgopal, Jayant ^c   Welling, Joel S ^d   Leonard, Jim ^b   Claypool, Erin G ^c   Weng, Yu Ting ^b   Chen, Sheng I ^c   Lee, Bruce Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c PA 15260   (United States)

^d PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

immunization; storage; transport; vaccine supply chains

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ARTICLE; DRUG STORAGE; EVALUATION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NIGER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

DRUG STORAGE; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NIGER; TRANSPORTATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84882446089     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: 15505022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e31828a83fe     Document Type: Article

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