Protecting the world's children : immunisation policies and practice

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Label

Protecting the world's children : immunisation policies and practice

Title remainder

immunisation policies and practice

Statement of responsibility

edited by Sidsel Roalkvam, Desmond McNeill, Stuart Blume

Contributor

• Blume, Stuart S., 1942-
• McNeill, Desmond
• Roalkvam, Sidsel

Subject

• Child
• Developing Countries
• Developing countries
• Electronic books
• Immunization Programs
• Immunization of children
• Immunization of children -- Developing countries
• Immunization of infants
• Immunization of infants -- Developing countries
• Infant
• International Cooperation
• MEDICAL -- Epidemiology
• MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment
• Vaccination

Language

eng

Summary

Vaccination programmes now represent a major part of the effort devoted to improving the health of children in developing countries. These donor-funded programmes tend to be global in scope and focus on worldwide goals and targets such as 'polio eradication', and the Millennium Development Goals. Health policy makers at the national level are expected to implement these programmes in a standard manner and report progress according to a few standard indicators. Pressures and incentives to achieve the targets set are then transmitted down to the community level health worker who actually meets th

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

614.47083091724

Index

index present

LC call number

RJ240

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

Online Book