A systematic literature review of missed opportunities for immunization in low- and middle-income countries

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 51, 2014, Pages 6870-6879

  Sridhar, Shruti ^a   Maleq, Nadira ^a   Guillermet, Elise ^a   Colombini, Anais ^a   Gessner, Bradford D ^a  

^a Agence de Medecine Preventive   (France)

Author keywords

Immunization; Meta analysis; Missed opportunity; Systematic review; Vaccine; Vaccine hesitancy

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924085686     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.10.063     Document Type: Review

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