Association between maternal health literacy and child vaccination in India: A cross-sectional study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 849-857

  Johri, Mira ^a,b   Subramanian, S V ^c   Sylvestre, Marie Pierre ^a,b   Dudeja, Sakshi ^d   Chandra, Dinesh ^d   Koné, Georges K ^a,e   Sharma, Jitendar K ^f   Pahwa, Smriti ^d  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^d Pratham/ASER Centre   (India)

^e L'Université de Daloa ^*  (Côte d’Ivoire)

^f GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; LITERACY; MATERNAL HEALTH; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VACCINATION;

INDIA;

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATHER; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INDIA; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MOTHERS; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84983095500     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2014-205436     Document Type: Article

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