Factors affecting childhood immunization in lao people's democratic republic: A cross-sectional study from nationwide, populationbased, multistage cluster sampling

BioScience Trends

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 178-185

  Kitamura, Tomomi ^a   Komada, Kenichi ^a   Xeuatvongsa, Anonh ^b   Hachiya, Masahiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ministry of Health   (Laos)

Author keywords

Childhood vaccination; Expanded programme on immunization (EPI); Full vaccination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LAOS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VACCINATION;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LAOS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84886310258     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5582/bst.2013.v7.4.178     Document Type: Article

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