Building evidence for improving vaccine adoption and uptake of childhood vaccinations in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Vaccine coverage for children is an important indicator of the performance of national health and immunization systems. Most of the existing literature has targeted mothers' low educational level, living in underserved districts and/or remote rural areas and economic poverty that are correlated with low immunization coverage but the supply- and demand-side constraints to immunization in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) are not well understood. The reliability of claimed administrative immunization coverage in these contexts is questionable. To address these barriers within the present Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), the difficulties related to inadequate vaccination uptake must be addressed in more depth. Building on already produced literature, this study aims to determ

SUBMITTER: Aslam F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8933664 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature