Effectiveness of a smartphone app on improving immunization of children in rural Sichuan Province, China: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

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Published in BMC Public Health on August 31, 2016

Authors

Li Chen1, Xiaozhen Du1, Lin Zhang2, Michelle Helena van Velthoven3, Qiong Wu1, Ruikan Yang4, Ying Cao4, Wei Wang1, Lihui Xie1, Xiuqin Rao1, Yanfeng Zhang5, Jeanne Catherine Koepsell6

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Integrated Early Childhood Development, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, No. 2 Yabao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100020, China.
2: Save the Children China Program, 1202 Block B Huaxi Buling, 5 Linyin Street, Wuhou District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, China.
3: Global eHealth Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, Reynolds building 3rd floor, St Dunstans road, London, W68RP, UK.
4: Save the Children China Program, 2-2-52 Jianwai Diplomatic Compound, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100600, China.
5: Department of Integrated Early Childhood Development, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, No. 2 Yabao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100020, China. summyzh@126.com.
6: Save the Children, 2000 L Street NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC, 20036, USA.

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