Vaccine-preventable diseases in humanitarian emergencies among refugee and internally-displaced populations

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2627-2636

  Lam, Eugene ^a   McCarthy, Amanda ^b   Brennan, Muireann ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil conflicts; Displacement; Humanitarian emergency; Immunizations; Internally displaced persons; Outbreaks; Refugees; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX; CHOLERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMERGENCY; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; MENINGITIS; MUMPS; POLIOMYELITIS; REFUGEE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VACCINATION; YELLOW FEVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TRANSMISSION;

VACCINE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; VACCINES;

EID: 84983381868     PISSN: 21645515     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2015.1096457     Document Type: Review

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