Use of mobile phones for improving vaccination coverage among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets of Bangladesh

Vaccine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 276-283

  Uddin, Md Jasim ^a   Shamsuzzaman, Md ^a   Horng, Lily ^b   Labrique, Alain ^c   Vasudevan, Lavanya ^d   Zeller, Kelsey ^c   Chowdhury, Mridul ^e   Larson, Charles P ^f,g   Bishai, David ^c   Alam, Nurul ^h  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e mPower Social Enterprises   (Bangladesh)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^h Icddr B   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Child; Immunization; MHealth; Mobile phone; Rural; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; REGISTER; RURAL AREA; TEXT MESSAGING; URBAN AREA; VACCINATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; REMINDER SYSTEM; RURAL POPULATION; SMARTPHONE; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NON-RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RURAL POPULATION; SMARTPHONE; TEXT MESSAGING; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955205815     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.11.024     Document Type: Article

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