Results from a survey of national immunization programmes on home-based vaccination record practices in 2013.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Data on home-based records (HBRs) practices within national immunization programmes are non-existent, making it difficult to determine whether current efforts of immunization programmes related to basic recording of immunization services are appropriately focused.

Methods

During January 2014, WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund sent a one-page questionnaire to 195 countries to obtain information on HBRs including type of record used, number of records printed, whether records were provided free-of-charge or required by schools, whether there was a stock-out and the duration of any stock-outs that occurred, as well as the total expenditure for printing HBRs during 2013.

Results

A total of 140 countries returned a completed HBR questionnaire. Two count

SUBMITTER: Young SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4492340 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature