Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on Immunization Service for Children

Abstract

Background: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) or the coronavirus disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has become a concern around the world, especially in Indonesia. As of January 31, 2021, the total cases of COVID-19 infection in the world reached 103 million with 2.22 million cases. The COVID-19 pandemic threatened to have an impact on health progress and particularly on children's development due to the obstruction of immunization services as a national program. Objective: This study aims to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child immunization services. Methods: The method used was a narrative literature review conducted by synthesizing and analyzing 4 search engines including ProQuest, ScienceDirect, Pubmed, and SpringerLink. The search for this manuscript found 22 texts that matched the specified topic, namely the impact of the presence of COVID-19 on immunization services in children, searched for the keywords immunization, COVID-19, immunization service, and child. Results: The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on changes in immunization services for children who have become obstructed, reduced service coverage, perceptions of parents reflecting the high demand for immunization, and an impact on health status, namely by carrying out routine immunizations resulting in trained immunity and generating immunity. Conclusion: COVID-19 has a special impact on child immunization services. Immunization services must continue to run and carry out according to applicable standards following local government policies by taking into account the principles and guidelines given. Collaboration between the government, the community, non-governmental organizations, and health professionals are needed to prevent a double burden during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stunting program implementation (sensitive and specific programs) in Sleman Regency

“…This research is in accordance with an assessment of the impact of the pandemic on health programs that have been carried out in other regions (Amieratunnisa et al, 2022;Amri, 2020;Maulana et al, 2022;Rusman & Martha, 2021;Saputri et al, 2020). What distinguishes this research from other studies is the case study approach that focuses on sensitive and specific nutrition intervention programs by involving various elements of program implementation from local devices to target program recipients.…”

“…The Ministry of Health (Direktorat Gizi Masyarakat, 2020) has issued guidelines for nutrition services during the pandemic to keep the program running (Saputri et al, 2020). However, several studies found that the COVID-19 pandemic has hampered the implementation of specific nutrition programs in several areas, such as disruption of nutrition services and the Mother and Child Health Program (MaCHP), decreased Integrated Service Center (ISC) visits, hampered immunization, administration of additonal blood tablets, and low coverage of The Supplementary Feeding (Amieratunnisa et al, 2022;Amri, 2020;Maulana et al, 2022;Rusman & Martha, 2021;Saputri et al, 2020). In the implementation of sensitive interventions, the Sustainable Food Garden (SFG/Pekarangan Pangan Lestari/P2L) program becomes a program with the lowest access to indicators and service coverage (Rahmawati & Harahap, 2022).…”

Role of Students in the Community Service Program in the National Child Immunization Month to Realize the Healthy Human Resources

“…The main factors that affect the disruption of immunization services during the COVID-19 pandemic, among others, are parents' concerns about the risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus, and health resources are more focused on handling COVID-19, and also disturbed the supply chain of vaccines and drugs. These are the problems in achieving routine immunization targets such as before the onset of COVID-19 [Ministry of Health and UNICEF Indonesia, 2021;Rusman 2021;Indahsari, 2021].…”