Progress in the establishment and strengthening of national immunization technical advisory groups: Analysis from the 2013 WHO/UNICEF joint reporting form, data for 2012

Vaccine

Volumn 31, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 5314-5320

  Duclos, Philippe ^a   Dumolard, Laure ^a   Abeysinghe, Nihal ^a   Adjagba, Alex ^b   Janusz, Cara Bess ^c   Mihigo, Richard ^a   Mosina, Liudmila ^a   Takashima, Yashohiro ^a   Öztürk, Murat Hakan ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Agence de Medecine Preventive   (France)

^c PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based decision making; Monitoring; National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG); WHO UNICEF Joint Reporting Form

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; LAW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PEDIATRICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFR; AFRICAN REGION; AMR; CDC; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION; DECADE OF VACCINES; DOV; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION; EMR; EUR; EUROPEAN REGION; EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING; GLOBAL VACCINE ACTION PLAN; GVAP; JOINT REPORTING FORM; JRF; MONITORING; NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP; NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP (NITAG); NITAG; REGION OF THE AMERICAS; SEAR; SIVAC; SOUTH-EAST ASIA REGION; SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT IMMUNIZATION AND VACCINE ADVISORY COMMITTEES; UNICEF; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND; WESTERN PACIFIC REGION; WHA; WHO; WHO/UNICEF JOINT REPORTING FORM; WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WPR;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 84886085624     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.08.084     Document Type: Article

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