quality assessment of immunization in rural areas coverd by health houses in west azarbaijan province, 1995

povinding quality health care services, without constant qualitative and quantitative studeies/evaluation, seem to be impossible. high rate of children immunization coverage in iran, however, represents parts of a quality assessment of mother and child health care services in rural areas of west-azerbaijan province, iran. in this cross-sectional study, lqas method was employed for the purpose of quality assessment. children between 10 to 36 months old from the pre-mentions areas constitute the study population of present report. sample was selected through a multistage sampling method and a questionnaire together with a checklist was utilized for data collection. findings demonstrate a very high rate immunization coverage of children (>96%). mother’s knowledge about the data of next vaccination and dpt potential side effect's are estimated to be 32%, and 58%, respectively. children's overall immunization adequacy rate, despite the high rate coverage, equalled to 59% which does not represent a high quality service in this respect. this study approves the reliability and practicality of lqas method for quality assurance of health services.