Beyond vertical and horizontal programs: a diagonal approach to building national immunization programs through measles elimination

Expert Review of Vaccines

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 791-793

  Orenstein, Walter A ^a   Seib, Katherine ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

diagonal programming; health systems strengthening; immunization infrastructure; measles; surveillance

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDITORIAL; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINE FAILURE; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; IMMUNOLOGY; MEASLES VIRUS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOGENICITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRANSMISSION; VACCINATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

MEASLES VACCINE;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MEASLES VIRUS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84961613492     PISSN: 14760584     EISSN: 17448395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14760584.2016.1165614     Document Type: Editorial

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