The association between travel time to health facilities and childhood vaccine coverage in rural Ethiopia. A community based cross sectional study
Open Access
- 22 June 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 12 (1) , 476
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-476
Abstract
Few studies have examined associations between access to health care and childhood vaccine coverage in remote communities that lack motorised transport. This study assessed whether travel time to health facilities was associated with childhood vaccine coverage in a remote area of Ethiopia.Keywords
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