Validating child vaccination status in a demographic surveillance system using data from a clinical cohort study: evidence from rural South Africa
Open Access
- 23 May 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 11 (1) , 372
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-372
Abstract
Childhood vaccination coverage can be estimated from a range of sources. This study aims to validate vaccination data from a longitudinal population-based demographic surveillance system (DSS) against data from a clinical cohort study.Keywords
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