Mobile phone-delivered reminders and incentives to improve childhood immunisation coverage and timeliness in Kenya (M-SIMU): a cluster randomised controlled trial

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2017, Pages e428-e438

  Gibson, Dustin G ^a   Ochieng, Benard ^b   Kagucia, E Wangeci ^a   Were, Joyce ^b   Hayford, Kyla ^a   Moulton, Lawrence H ^a   Levine, Orin S ^a   Odhiambo, Frank ^b   O'Brien, Katherine L ^a   Feikin, Daniel R ^a  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B HEPATITIS B VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; KENYA; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; EDUCATION; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; NEWBORN; PARENT; REIMBURSEMENT; REMINDER SYSTEM; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

CELL PHONE; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINES; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; PARENTS; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 85014811611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30072-4     Document Type: Article

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