Promoting Immunization Coverage Rates: Infants and Young Children

This report focuses on strategies to promote immunization coverage rates among infants and young children, highlighting the critical importance of vaccination in preventing diseases and improving overall health outcomes. The report categorizes interventions into three main groups: those targeting the healthcare provider system, interventions aimed at increasing demand for vaccination, and those focused on increasing immunization rates for vulnerable populations. The report also mentions the disadvantages of lack of vaccination or VPD death when diseases strike, disability state, weak body health, and increased chances of acquiring other secondary diseases. Advantages of immunization include reduced financial barriers, reduced inconveniences, preventing death, and savings for families and governments. The report references several studies that support the effectiveness of these interventions, including home visits, client reminder systems, and community-based programs. The report emphasizes the need for comprehensive approaches that address various barriers to vaccination and improve access to immunization services, ultimately contributing to better health outcomes and the prevention of infectious diseases. The report uses Harvard style referencing.

Promoting immunization coverage
rates among infants and young
children
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Lack of vaccination or VPD
 Death when diseases strike,
 Disability state
 Weak body health
 Increased chances of acquiring other
secondary diseases
Advantages of immunization
 Reduced financial barriers for example, cutting down out-of
pocket cost.
 Reduced inconveniences of seeking the vaccinations among
the parents by bringing healthcare services to them at their
homes and other settings that are non-medical.
 Prevents death, disability status, spread of infectious
diseases, contracting secondary diseases
 Families and governments make savings that can be
channeled to development project s
 Enjoyment on good lifestyles (Odone, Ferrari, Spagnoli,
Visciarelli, Shefer, Pasquarella, & Signorelli, 2015).
Third intervention category
Interventions includes the health provider system
based strategies.
The interventions target healthcare providers with
feedback assessments reminders, education and
various other mechanisms the are meant to lower
down the rate of missed opportunities of vaccinating
receptive patients in the process of doing periodic
visits.
 Standing orders,
 Provider feedback and assessment,
 Provider reminders
 Interventions that are system-based that can be
implemented through the combination method
References
• Owais, A., Hanif, B., Siddiqui, A. R., Agha, A., & Zaidi, A.
K. (2011). Does improving maternal knowledge of
vaccines impact infant immunization rates? A
community-based randomized-controlled trial in
Karachi, Pakistan. BMC public health, 11(1), 239.
• Odone, A., Ferrari, A., Spagnoli, F., Visciarelli, S., Shefer,
A., Pasquarella, C., & Signorelli, C. (2015). Effectiveness
of interventions that apply new media to improve
vaccine uptake and vaccine coverage: a systematic
review. Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 11(1),
72-82.
• Kharbanda, E. O., Stockwell, M. S., Fox, H. W., Andres,
R., Lara, M., & Rickert, V. I. (2011). Text message
reminders to promote human papillomavirus
vaccination. Vaccine, 29(14), 2537-2541.
Introduction
 Children are normally affected by various diseases
that are highly contagious and that affect their
health at later ages if they are not vaccinated
against (Owais, Hanif, Siddiqui, Agha, & Zaidi, 2011).
 In many countries, the level of vaccination rates
among different population groups remains low.
 Deaths, infections, disability states, high costs are
outcomes for lack of vaccination
 There is need to have all their children vaccinated
against diseases such as polio, measles and other
dangerous diseases below the age of five years.
Second intervention category
Interventions involve those that increase the demand
for VPD vaccination and which are meant to increase
the rate of people who come to seek vaccination
services for their infants and young children.
 Client recall and reminder systems,
 Family or client incentive rewards,
 Interventions that are community-based and
implemented through a combination method
 Passing requirements of vaccination for school
children, child care and college attendance
(Kharbanda, Stockwell, Fox, Andres, Lara, &
Rickert, 2011).
First intervention category
These interventions help increase immunization
for infants, young children and women who are
vulnerable to diseases.
 Home visits that increase the rates of
vaccination on young children,
 Reduction of the out-of-pockets cost on
parents for vaccinations,
 designing vaccination programs at organized
centers for child care and schools
 conducting door-to-door immunization
campaign that targets the local and
marginalized areas in the community for free