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| Title |
Lessons learned from the development of a new methodology to assess missed opportunities for vaccination in Latin America and the Caribbean
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, February 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12914-015-0043-1 |
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| Authors |
Martha Velandia-González, Silas Pierson Trumbo, José Luis Díaz-Ortega, Pamela Bravo-Alcántara, M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Vance Dietz, Cuauhtémoc Ruiz-Matus |
| Abstract |
The Pan American Health Organization recently developed a practical guide for evaluating missed opportunities for vaccination among children aged <5 years. A missed opportunity occurs when an individual eligible for vaccination has contact with a health facility and does not receive a needed vaccine, despite having no contraindications. In this article, we discuss the strengths and limitations of this new methodology and present lessons learned from recent studies on undervaccination in Latin America. Our findings should be useful to countries embarking on assessing the magnitude and the causes of missed opportunities for vaccination children experience at health facilities. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 55 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 55 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 11 | 20% |
| Other | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 9% |
| Researcher | 5 | 9% |
| Lecturer | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 10 | 18% |
| Unknown | 14 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 22 | 40% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 11% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 4% |
| Psychology | 2 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Unknown | 16 | 29% |