Timeliness of infant vaccination and factors related with delay in Flanders, Belgium

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 284-289

  Lernout, Tinne ^a   Theeten, Heidi ^a,b   Hens, Niel ^a,c   Braeckman, Tessa ^a   Roelants, Mathieu ^d   Hoppenbrouwers, Karel ^d   Van Damme, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Flanders; Infant vaccination; Risk factors; Timeliness

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD INFECTION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; TIMELINESS OF VACCINATION; TREND STUDY; VACCINATION; VACCINATION DELAY;

FLANDERS; INFANT VACCINATION; RISK FACTORS; TIMELINESS;

BELGIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84890547141     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.10.084     Document Type: Article

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