The accuracy of mothers' reports of child vaccination: evidence from rural Egypt

Längsten, Ray; Hill, Kenneth

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(97)10049-1

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“…In standard practice, immunization rates from large-scale Demographic Health Surveys are derived from the information recorded on health cards where these cards are available (Boerma and Bicego 1994;Brown et al 2002) and such estimates are found to be of good quality (Langsten and Hill 1998). However, in the case of the absence of health cards, mothers' reports are associated with errors of overestimation, of measles vaccine in particular (Hawe et al 1991;McKinney et al 1991), and underestimation of overall immunization in general (Christopher et al 2003;Gareaballah and Loevinsohn 1989;Suarez et al 1997;Valadez and Weld 1991); our results accord with this underestimation.…”

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“…This is the standard practice for measuring immunization status using the large-scale population-based survey (Boerma and Bicego 1994;Langsten and Hill 1998). The immunization coverage is analysed as 'full immunization'-surviving children who have received one dose of BCG, three doses of DPT vaccine, three doses of polio vaccine, and one dose of measles vaccine; 'partial/any immunization'-surviving children who have received at least one vaccine; and 'no immunization'-surviving children who did not receive any vaccines.…”

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Socio-economic differentials in childhood immunization in India, 1992–2006

Kumar

Mohanty

2011

J Pop Research

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This paper examines the socio-economic differentials in coverage of basic childhood immunization in India and the states of Bihar and Gujarat using three rounds of National Family Health Survey data. States are selected on the basis of changes in full immunization coverage during 1992-2006. Bivariate, multivariate, and progression rate is used to understand the differentials and changes in immunization coverage. Results indicate that there has been a substantial increase in partial immunization in most of the states, but the increase in full immunization coverage is relatively slow in many of the states. Along with mother's education, standard of living, mass media exposure, and availability of health card is a significant predictor in explaining the full immunization coverage irrespective of time.

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Socio-economic differentials in childhood immunization in India, 1992–2006

Kumar

Mohanty

2011

J Pop Research

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“…Langsten e Hill (6) A posse da caderneta de vacinação apresentou distribuição em parábola, isto é, valores menores nos dois extremos do espectro de condições de vida e valores semelhantes no centro. Evidentemente, o tipo de inquérito conduzido não permite explicar esses dados, porém o mais provável é haver explicações diferentes para as duas situações.…”

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Cobertura vacinal no primeiro ano de vida em quatro cidades do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Moraes¹,

Barata²,

Ribeiro³

et al. 2000

Rev Panam Salud Publica

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A vacinação constitui uma importante medida para a prevenção de doenças e a avaliação de sua eficiência é fundamental para garantir o sucesso dos programas de imunização. O presente estudo descreve os resultados de um inquérito domiciliar para estimar a cobertura vacinal da co RESUMENO controle de doenças transmissíveis tem nos programas de imunização e vigilância epidemiológica dois componentes fundamentais. Da mesma forma, o conhecimento preciso da cobertura vacinal em menores de 1 ano é um dos elementos importantes para o programa de vigilância epidemioló-gica, na medida que permite acompanhar o aumento do número de indiví-duos suscetíveis na população, bem como aquilatar até que ponto a imunidade de massa está se constituindo em barreira efetiva para a interrupção da transmissão daquelas doenças que podem ser prevenidas por imunização.Rotineiramente, os dados de cobertura vacinal são estimados a partir dos dados de produção dos serviços -nú-mero de doses aplicadas e registradas 332

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“…Within these surveys, immunization or child health cards available in the household are used to collect documented information on immunization services received by children. In the absence of an available or completed card, surveys often collect information based on maternal recall, though there is mixed evidence regarding the validity and reliability of recall relative to health records or immunization cards [15][16][17][18][19][20]. Despite the importance of cards to monitoring, the reliance on cards as a source of immunization data will almost certainly underestimate coverage until the proportion of cardholders is more nearly equal the proportion of children immunized [21], further reinforcing the need to improve issuance, maintenance and utilization of cards.…”

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COMMENTARY - Child Immunization Cards: Essential Yet Underutilized in National Immunization Programmes

Brown¹

2012

TOVACJ

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Abstract:The child immunization card is an inexpensive yet effective instrument for systematically recording the vaccines received by a child. Moreover, the card can enhance health professionals' ability to make clinical decisions, empower parents/caregivers in the health care of their children, and support public health monitoring. Unfortunately, the child immunization card is too often underutilized or inappropriately used by parents and health care workers and therefore does not always fulfil its intended purpose. National immunization programmes should be encouraged to procure cards in conjunction with other necessary vaccination supplies and to more actively promote the issuance and appropriate use of the card.

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The accuracy of mothers' reports of child vaccination: evidence from rural Egypt

Cited by 78 publications

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Socio-economic differentials in childhood immunization in India, 1992–2006

Socio-economic differentials in childhood immunization in India, 1992–2006

Cobertura vacinal no primeiro ano de vida em quatro cidades do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

COMMENTARY - Child Immunization Cards: Essential Yet Underutilized in National Immunization Programmes

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