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Protecting the world's children : immunisation policies and practice / edited by Sidsel Roalkvam, Desmond McNeill, Stuart Blume ; contributors, Steinar Andresen [and eleven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immunization of children--Developing countries.
- Immunization of children.
- Immunization of infants--Developing countries.
- Immunization of infants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 andincentives to achieve the targets set are then transmitted down to the community level health worker who actually meets th
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Contributors; 1 Saving children's lives: perspectives on immunisation; 2 Concepts and approaches; 3 The global politics of health: actors and initiatives; 4 National commitments and global objectives; 5 Rights and obligations in national health governance; 6 'Immunisation is good for your children': local immunisation practices in India and Malawi; 7 Have means become ends? Getting children's health back in focus; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-164451-X
- 0-19-164450-1
- OCLC:
- 854576754
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