Social inequalities in vaccination uptake among children aged 0-59 months living in Madagascar: An analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data from 2008 to 2009

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 28, 2014, Pages 3533-3539

  Clouston, S ^a   Kidman, R ^a   Palermo, T ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic variation; Global health; Herd immunity; Madagascar; Multilevel analysis; Social inequalities and health; Vaccine coverage

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DEMOGRAPHY; DIPHTHERIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIGLOTTITIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS MENINGITIS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HERD IMMUNITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; MADAGASCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; NEWBORN; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HERD; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MADAGASCAR; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84901414050     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.04.030     Document Type: Article

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