The incremental cost of improving immunization coverage in India through the Intensified Mission Indradhanush programme.

ABSTRACT: Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) was a strategic endeavour launched by the Government of India aiming to achieve 90% full immunization coverage in the country by 2018. The basic strategy of this special drive involved identifying missed children and vaccinating them in temporary outreach sites for 1 week over consecutive 4-month period starting from October 2017. This study estimated the incremental economic and financial cost of conducting IMI in India from a government provider perspective. Five states-Assam, Bihar, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh were purposefully selected because of high concentration of IMI activities. The stratified random sample of 40 districts, 90 sub-districts and 289 sub-centres were included in this study. Cost data were retrospectively collected

SUBMITTER: Chatterjee S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8428614 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature