Beyond expectations: 40 years of EPI

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9930, 2014, Pages 1697-1698

  Chan, Margaret ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG INDUSTRY; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INSURANCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEASLES; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NOTE; PEDIATRICS; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CERTIFICATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; EXPECTATION; HEALTH CARE COST; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; TROPICAL DISEASE;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

EID: 84900522277     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60751-0     Document Type: Note

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