Timeliness of infant vaccination and factors related with delay in Flanders,Belgium |
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| Authors: | Tinne Lernout Heidi Theeten Niel Hens Tessa Braeckman Mathieu Roelants Karel Hoppenbrouwers Pierre Van Damme |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium;2. Post-doctoral Research Fellow of the Fund of Scientific Research (FWO), Belgium;3. Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium;4. Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium;5. Centre for Youth Health Care, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Achieving high vaccination coverage is a necessary, but not a sufficient indicator of the quality of a vaccination programme, in terms of control and prevention of childhood infectious diseases. For optimal protection of infants, timeliness of vaccination is increasingly recognized as another important target. |
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| Keywords: | Infant vaccination Timeliness Risk factors Flanders |
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