The Global Vaccine Safety Initiative: Enhancing vaccine pharmacovigilance capacity at country level

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 695-696

  Maure, Christine G ^a   Dodoo, Alexander N ^b   Bonhoefer, Jan ^c   Zuber, Patrick L F ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c Brighton Collaboration Foundation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; HEALTH; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARDS;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARMACOVIGILANCE; VACCINES;

EID: 84906906093     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.14.138875     Document Type: Note

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