Factors affecting immunization coverage in urban slums of Odisha, India: implications on urban health policy

A study on determinants of immunization coverage among 12-23 months old children in urban slums of Lucknow district, India.

CONTEXT To find out the suitable factors for raising the coverage of immunization. AIMS To determine the coverage and to identify the various factors of primary immunization. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Urban slums of Lucknow district. METHODS AND MATERIAL WHO 30-cluster sampling technique was used for the selection of the subjects. Mother, father or relative of a total of 510 children with 17 ch...

Factors limiting immunization coverage in urban Dili, Timor-Leste

BACKGROUND Timor-Leste's immunization coverage is among the poorest in Asia. The 2009/2010 Demographic and Health Survey found that complete vaccination coverage in urban areas, at 47.7%, was lower than in rural areas, at 54.1%. The city of Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste, had even lower coverage (43.4%) than the national urban average. OBJECTIVE To better understand the service- and user-re...

Catastrophic Household Expenditure on Health Care in Urban Slums of Cuttack: Focus on Health Sector Reform in Odisha

One of the main challenges in the implementation of health care reform in developing countries of India has been the development of catastrophic household expenditure on health care. This papers aims at contributing to the examination of the content, measurement and policy implications of health care reform tackling catastrophic risks in one of the oldest city of Odisha that is Cuttack. We unde...

Road Transport in Urban India: Its Implications on Health

Urban slums and primary health care.

provide substantial benefits for the dental health of six million people, many of them living in the west midlands and the north east ofEngland.4 The arguments for extending fluoridation are not as overwhelming as they were in 1956. The prevalence of dental caries has fallen in both fluoridated and non-fluoridated districts,5 and the costs of fluoridation plant designed to meet modem operating ...