AIM To identify primary care factors associated with immunisation coverage. METHODS A survey during 2005-2006 of a random sample of New Zealand primary care practices, with over-sampling of practices serving indigenous children. An immunisation audit was conducted for children registered at each practice. Practice characteristics and the knowledge and attitudes of doctors, nurses and caregive...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of modest non-financial incentives on immunisation rates in children aged 1-3 and to compare it with the effect of only improving the reliability of the supply of services. DESIGN Clustered randomised controlled study. SETTING Rural Rajasthan, India. PARTICIPANTS 1640 children aged 1-3 at end point. INTERVENTIONS 134 villages were randomised to one of th...

Parental knowledge of, and attitudes towards, immunisation and the diseases that vaccines protect against are important determinants of a decision to vaccinate children. This study addresses parents’ beliefs and perceptions about childhood immunisation and identifies potential and existing barriers. Focus groups and one-onone interviews were held with New Zealand European and Maori mothers of s...

Urinary cortisol excretion and rectal temperature were measured in 66 infants before and after immunisation against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and Haemophilus influenzae type b. Immunisation produced a significant increase of rectal temperature the next night at all ages. Infants without an adult-like night time body temperature pattern had a significant increase in urinary cortisol excret...

Specialist immunisation clinics review and manage children who have experienced an adverse event following immunisation and provide advice to parents and health care providers regarding the revaccination of these children. Information collected by these clinics supplement passive surveillance data and allow the investigation of suspected safety signals associated with the delivery of immunisati...

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there were 28,950 children in Malaysia who did not receive full immunisation, given by the Malaysian government for free, by the age of 7 in 2011 alone. Current manual or paper-based systems are no longer effective nor efficient in keeping track of the immunisation schedules, and in reminding parents regarding their children‘s immunisation sched...

OBJECTIVE To determine the factors that influence immunisation coverage. DESIGN Cross section destrictive study. SETTING Mathare valley slums in Central district of Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS Seven hundred and twelve children aged 12-23 months. RESULTS Access to immunisation services was excellent at 95.6%. However, utilisation of immunisation services was found to be suboptimal as indica...

Immunisation of health care workers against influenza reduces influenza-related morbidity and mortality of hospital inpatients and staff absenteeism. Uptake of influenza vaccination amongst hospital doctors is generally inadequate, and factors contributing to influenza vaccine uptake among doctors have not been well defined. We performed an audit of doctors at an Australian hospital to establis...

BACKGROUND The proportion of Ugandan children who are fully vaccinated has varied over the years. Understanding vaccination behaviour is important for the success of the immunisation programme. This study examined influences on immunisation behaviour using the attitude-social influence-self efficacy model. METHODS We conducted nine focus group discussions (FGDs) with mothers and fathers. Eigh...

Two hundred and one parents attending three child health clinics were questioned about both measles and immunisation against measles. Most parents were unaware of the symptoms and possible complications of measles and did not believe immunisation to be effective in preventing measles. They did not remember having talked to health professionals about immunisation.