Refusal of oral polio vaccine in northwestern Pakistan: A qualitative and quantitative study

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1382-1387

  Murakami, Hitoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Makoto ^a   Hachiya, Masahiko ^a   Khan, Zahir S ^b   Hassan, Syed Q ^b   Sakurada, Shinsaku ^a  

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

^b United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Office for Pakistan   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Oral polio vaccine; Pakistan; Polio eradication; Poliomyelitis; Vaccine refusal

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIO VACCINE; PAKISTAN; POLIO ERADICATION; POLIOMYELITIS; VACCINE REFUSAL;

DISEASE ERADICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PAKISTAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, ORAL; RELIGION; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 84894410273     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.01.018     Document Type: Article

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