Listening to the rumours: What the northern Nigeria polio vaccine boycott can tell us ten years on

Global Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1138-1150

  Ghinai, Isaac ^a,b   Willott, Chris ^a   Dadari, Ibrahim ^c   Larson, Heidi J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE   (United States)

Author keywords

eradication; Nigeria; polio; public trust; vaccine confidence

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; DRUG INDUSTRY; EDUCATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE STERILITY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNIZATION; LEADERSHIP; MORALITY; MOSLEM; NIGERIA; PHYSICIAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLITICS; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; READING; RELIGION; RITUAL; TREATMENT REFUSAL; DISEASE CLEARANCE; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MUSLIM; NIGERIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIETY; TRUST;

DISEASE ERADICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISLAM; MALE; NIGERIA; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, ORAL; POLITICS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84890553498     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2013.859720     Document Type: Article

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