Can maternal variables alone determine immunization coverage?

Immunization Coverage: Role of Sociodemographic Variables

Children are considered fully immunized if they receive one dose of BCG, three doses of DPT and polio vaccine each, and one measles vaccine. In India, only 44% of children aged 12-23 months are fully vaccinated and about 5% have not received any vaccination at all. Even if national immunization coverage levels are sufficiently high to block disease transmission, pockets of susceptibility may ac...

Retracted: Immunization Coverage: Role of Sociodemographic Variables

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2013/607935.].

Use of public school immunization data to determine community-level immunization coverage.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether immunization data collected on a child's entry into kindergarten, i.e., Chicago Public School Immunization Data (PSID), was comparable to coverage levels determined by the National Immunization Survey (NIS) and to use these data to identify community areas with consistently low immunization coverage. METHODS The Chicago Department of Public Health obtained four ...

Immunization coverage in Bihar.

who and unicef: updates on immunization coverage and how can we improve upon?

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