Impact of campaign-style delivery of routine vaccines: a quasi-experimental evaluation using routine health services data in India.

ABSTRACT: The world is not on track to achieve the goals for immunization coverage and equity described by the World Health Organization's Global Vaccine Action Plan. Many countries struggle to increase coverage of routine vaccination, and there is little evidence about how to do so effectively. In India in 2016, only 62% of children had received a full course of basic vaccines. In response, in 2017-18 the government implemented Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI), a nationwide effort to improve coverage and equity using a campaign-style strategy. Campaign-style approaches to routine vaccine delivery like IMI, sometimes called 'periodic intensification of routine immunization' (PIRI), are widely used, but there is little robust evidence on their effectiveness. We conducted a quasi-experimental ev

SUBMITTER: Clarke-Deelder E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8128004 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature