Perceived enablers and barriers of community engagement for vaccination in India: Using socioecological analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is high level policy consensus in India that community engagement (CE) improves vaccination uptake and reduces burden of vaccine preventable diseases. However, to date, vaccination studies in the country have not explicitly focused on CE as an outcome in and of itself. Therefore, this study sought to examine the barriers and enablers of community engagement for vaccination in India.

Methods

Employing qualitative methods, twenty-five semi-structured elite interviews among vaccine decisionmakers' were triangulated with twenty-four national-level vaccine policy documents and researcher field notes (December 2017 to February 2018). Data collected for this study included perceptions and examples of enablers of and barriers to CE for vaccination uptake. Concepts,

SUBMITTER: Dutta T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8232440 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature