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Seven Years Old: School Experience In Ireland: National Report Of The Iea Preprimary Project (11), Noirin Hayes, Margaret Kernan
Seven Years Old: School Experience In Ireland: National Report Of The Iea Preprimary Project (11), Noirin Hayes, Margaret Kernan
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Early Childhood Education In Ireland: Policy, Provision And Practice, Noirin Hayes
Early Childhood Education In Ireland: Policy, Provision And Practice, Noirin Hayes
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Immunization Status And Child Survival In Rural Ghana, Philomena Nyarko, Brian Wells Pence, Cornelius Debpuur
Immunization Status And Child Survival In Rural Ghana, Philomena Nyarko, Brian Wells Pence, Cornelius Debpuur
Poverty, Gender, and Youth
For three decades, the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) has been promoted as one of the key child health interventions in developing countries. Vaccines for six childhood diseases (diphtheria, measles, pertussis, poliomyelitis, tetanus, and tuberculosis) have been shown to be efficacious in preventing disease-specific morbidity and mortality, yet not all commentators are convinced that the EPI reduces all-cause child mortality. Numerous studies have found that measles vaccination programs substantially reduce all-cause child mortality, but recent findings from Guinea-Bissau suggest that diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT) vaccine may increase all-cause child mortality. The present study uses five years of data from …