Abstract

Immunization Coverage and its determinants in Children Aged 12-23 Months in Basrah

Highlights

  • Immunization is often cited as being one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.[1,2] Effective immunization requires population coverage levels of 90 to95% depending upon the vaccine-preventable disease.[3]

  • MJBU, Vol 35, No.2, 2017 vaccine doses achieved among children in the first year of their age. [4,5] Historically, in May 1974, the 27th World Health Assembly resolved to build on the success of the smallpox eradication programme and established the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) to ensure that all children, in all countries, benefited from life-saving vaccines.[5]

  • Study design A community-based cross sectional descriptive survey with a multistage sampling technique was conducted in Basrah province during the period between 3rd and 14th of April, 2016 on 30 randomly selected clusters, where 300 children (10 for each cluster) aged 12-23 months were studied for vaccination coverage

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Introduction

Immunization is often cited as being one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.[1,2] Effective immunization requires population coverage levels of 90 to95% depending upon the vaccine-preventable disease.[3]. [8] In addition, evaluation of immunization coverage provides evidence whether substantial progress towards achieving vaccination targets is being made.[9] Vaccination coverage is defined as the proportion of a given population that has been vaccinated in a given time period. It is estimated for each vaccine and, for multidose vaccines, for each dose received (e.g., diphtheria-tetanus-Pertussis-containing vaccine (DTP1, DTP2)). Objectives: This study aimed to assess the level of immunization coverage rate among children aged 12 to 23 months in Basrah during 2014-2015.

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