Interventions for improving childhood vaccination coverage in low- and middle-income countries

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2015
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Health & Medical Publishing Group
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Cochrane Corner’ in the November SAMJ highlights a Cochrane review that evaluated the effects of interventions for improving childhood vaccination coverage in low- and middle-income countries. Question: Which interventions increase the uptake of childhood vaccines in low and middle-income countries? Bottom line: Health education, home visits, and reminders probably increase the uptake of childhood vaccines in low and middle-income countries.
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CITATION: Wiysonge, C. S., et al. 2015. Interventions for improving childhood vaccination coverage in low- and middle-income countries. South African Medical Journal, 105(11):892-893, doi:10.7196/SAMJ.2015.v105i11.10177.
The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.za
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Vaccination -- Developing countries, Systematic reviews (Medical research), Medicine -- Research -- Databases
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Wiysonge, C. S., et al. 2015. Interventions for improving childhood vaccination coverage in low- and middle-income countries. South African Medical Journal, 105(11):892-893, doi:10.7196/SAMJ.2015.v105i11.10177
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http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/99267
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Research Articles (Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care)