Promoting Immunization Coverage Rates for Infants and Young Children

Running head: PROMOTING IMMUNIZATION COVERAGE 1
Promoting Immunization Coverage Rates for Infants and Young Children
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PROMOTING IMMUNIZATION COVERAGE 2
Promoting Immunization Coverage Rates for Infants and Young Children
Children are normally affected by various diseases that are highly contagious and that
affect their health at later ages. This aspect occurs if the children are not immunized against these
diseases. However, research shows that many people in the communities do not take the
initiative to take the children to get vaccinated against the diseases (Anderson et al. 2015). The
government has made efforts to ensure that people in the communities especially in local areas
are required to have all their children vaccinated against diseases such as polio, measles and
other dangerous diseases below the age of five years. In many countries, the level of vaccination
rates among different population groups remains low even when the government and health care
task force continue making efforts to increase them. Promoting immunization coverage rates
requires serious campaign that intends to increase the vaccine rates among targeted groups in the
community. The population-level coverage involving the immunization against various VPD
(vaccine-preventable diseases) should not fall below the optimal rates in any country Bonanni et
al. 2015). The government and healthcare taskforce needs to come up with various interventions
towards increasing the vaccination coverage that are based on the systematic reviews regarding
evaluation literature. The essay seeks to evaluate the various ways that help increase the
coverage rates of immunization among young children to protect them against such diseases.
The poster designed concerning the promotion of VPD vaccination coverage rates
includes 12 interventions that are recommended by government and healthcare taskforce. These
interventions are divided into three broad categories to enhance their effectiveness. There are
interventions that enhance the access to services involving vaccination that are meant to reduce
the financial barriers for example, cutting down out-of pocket cost (Lu, & Santosham, 2012).
They also reduce the inconveniences of seeking the vaccinations among the parents by bringing