The paper reviews the achievements in tetanus immunization coverage and child immunization in Bangladesh. It uses data from the 1993-94 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey to identify and examine the programmatic and non-programmatic factors that influence the coverage of tetanus (TT) immunization during pregnancy, and full immunization among children 12-23 months old in rural Bangladesh. ...

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 o...

There is limited understanding of why routine immunization (RI) coverage improves in some settings in Africa and not in others. Using a grounded theory approach, we conducted in-depth case studies to understand pathways to coverage improvement by comparing immunization programme experience in 12 districts in three countries (Ethiopia, Cameroon and Ghana). Drawing on positive deviance or assets ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the immunization program for 12 and 24-month-old children based on electronic immunization registry. METHODS A descriptive study of a random sample of 2,637 children born in 2002 living in the city of Curitiba, Southern Brazil was performed. Data was collected from local electronic immunization registers and the National Live Birth Information System, as well as from a h...