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ArticleConflict and health2016

Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Eugene Lam, Michael Diaz, Allen Gidraf Kahindo Maina, Muireann Brennan

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Article in Conflict and health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Eugene LamEmergency Response and Recovery Branch; Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 USA.
Michael DiazDepartment of Global Epidemiology; Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA.
Allen Gidraf Kahindo MainaUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Geneva, Switzerland.
Muireann BrennanEmergency Response and Recovery Branch; Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Populations affected by humanitarian emergencies may require unique strategies to ensure access to life-saving vaccines and attain sufficiently high population immunity to interrupt virus circulation. Vaccination strategies among displaced populations should not be an afterthought and must be part of the vaccine-preventable disease eradication and elimination initiatives from the start.

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Civil conflictsDisease eradicationDisplacementHumanitarian emergencyImmunizationsInternally displaced personsMeaslesOutbreaksPoliomyelitisRefugeesRubellaVaccines

Identifiers

PMID27956938
PMCPMC5129240

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