Immunization Program in UAE: Methods to Measure Vaccination Coverage and Phased Vaccination Program

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Methods to measure vaccination coverage
There are two types of methods used to determine vaccination such as routine reports of
vaccination delivered, and register based (Cutts, Izurieta, & Rhoda, 2013).
Register based (electronic) method
Advantages
• It can provide complete real- data on vaccination coverage of a particular person and
populations.
• It is used to fix an appointment and recalls.
• It is used to control vaccine stock and ordering.
• It reduced time participate on a paper register that is used for low income.
• It provides Electronic data access to home vaccination.
• It is used to provide data at a peripheral level (National Centre for biotechnology
information, 2016).
Disadvantages
• Routine reports of vaccination need a good computer system to access data
• It required a proper birth registry for a denominator
• It require a unique identify for a particular person
• It follows complete procedures to identify any duplicate record
• For locally, difficult to track vaccination coverage of migrants
• It follows procedures to avoid losing data
• It requires funding for proper maintenance
• If vaccination held nationally than feedback process may be slow (National Centre for
biotechnology information, 2016).
Routine reports of vaccination delivered
Advantages
 The main advantage of routine reports of vaccination is that it allows continuous information
to access data.
 It is used by workers and people to find missed opportunities
• It can be used for multiple health programmes (National Centre for biotechnology
information, 2016).
Disadvantages
 The main disadvantage of this method is that it does not provide a report of private sector
 Transcription error for each health system
 In SIAs, report gives inflated estimates v data due to a short time
• Population denominators often inaccurate for local level (National Centre for biotechnology
information, 2016).