Landscaping the structures of GAVI country vaccine supply chains and testing the effects of radical redesign

Vaccine

Volumn 33, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 4451-4458

  Lee, Bruce Y ^a,b   Connor, Diana L ^b   Wateska, Angela R ^b   Norman, Bryan A ^c   Rajgopal, Jayant ^c   Cakouros, Brigid E ^b   Chen, Sheng I ^c   Claypool, Erin G ^c   Haidari, Leila A ^b,d   Karir, Veena ^b   Leonard, Jim ^c   Mueller, Leslie E ^b   Paul, Proma ^b   Schmitz, Michelle M ^b   Welling, Joel S ^d   Weng, Yu Ting ^b   Brown, Shawn T ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Public Health Computational and Operations Research (PHICOR)   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunization; Modeling; Supply chains

Indexed keywords

HERMES ANTIGEN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LANDSCAPING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; MOTORCYCLE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURCHASING; SIMULATION; VACCINATION; DRUG STORAGE; ECONOMICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

DRUG STORAGE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; VACCINES;

EID: 84939572745     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.07.033     Document Type: Article

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