Household survey analysis of the impact of comprehensive strategies to improve the expanded programme on immunisation at the county level in western China, 2006-2010.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate interventions to improve routine vaccination coverage and caregiver knowledge in China's remote west, where routine immunisation is relatively weak.

Design

Prospective pre-post (2006-2010) evaluation in project counties; retrospective comparison based on 2004 administrative data at baseline and surveyed post-intervention (2010) data in selected non-project counties.

Setting

Four project counties and one non-project county in each of four provinces.

Participants

3390 children in project counties at baseline, and 3299 in project and 830 in non-project counties post-intervention; and 3279 caregivers at baseline, and 3389 in project and 830 in non-project counties post-intervention.

Intervention

Multicomponent inexpensive knowledge-stre

SUBMITTER: Zhou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4800133 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature