Objectives. To determine whether potential exists to increase vaccination coverage in
Swaziland by reducing missed opportunities. Design. The standard World Health …

Background: Despite concerted support to vaccination programmes, coverage remains low.
While health service reasons for this are known, there is little information on caretaker …

Background: Immunization remains a key strategy in the control of childhood diseases, with
a child expected to have five visits according to the current National Programme on …

Quantified in the study are the extent of missed opportunities for immunization and the
potential increases in vaccination coverage and timeliness that could be achieved by using …

Objectives: To quantify missed opportunities for immunisation, document reasons for their
occurrence and evaluate the extent of inappropriately given vaccine doses. Design: A cross …

Background. Childhood immunisations are a cost-effective public health intervention for
prevention of infectious diseases. Immunisation coverage is still suboptimal, however, which …

Methods Service Provision Assessments (SPA) of representative samples of health facilities
in four African countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, Malawi) in 2010-2015 were used to …

Background Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOVs), estimated to be about 32-47% of
child healthcare clinic visits in various settings globally, contribute to unfulfilled childhood …

Objectives. To compare prevaJences of missed opportunities for immunisation between
preventative and curative clinic patients and to evaluate changes 13 months later. Design …

Objectives: To examine geographic and demographic trends in objection to vaccination in
Australia. Design: Cross‐sectional analysis of Australian Childhood Immunisation Register …