National Immunization Day: a strategy to monitor health and nutrition indicators

• Main Authors: Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos (Author), Rômulo Paes-Sousa (Author), Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Junior (Author), César Gomes Victora (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization.
• Subjects: article
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PROBLEM: To achieve the Millennium Development Goals it is necessary to set up low-cost, real-time monitoring systems which can provide feedback to managers and policy-makers in a timely fashion. The gold-standard approach for monitoring nutritional situations is to conduct household surveys. Howeve...