Missed opportunities in full immunization coverage: findings from low- and lower-middle-income countries

Missed opportunities in full immunization coverage: findings from low- and lower-middle-income countries

BACKGROUND An estimated 23 million infants are still not being benefitted from routine immunization services. We assessed how many children failed to be fully immunized even though they or their mothers were in contact with health services to receive other interventions. DESIGN Fourteen countries with Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys carried out after 2000...

A systematic literature review of missed opportunities for immunization in low- and middle-income countries.

BACKGROUND Missed opportunities for immunization (MOIs) may contribute to low coverage in diverse settings, including developing countries. METHODS We conducted a systematic literature review on MOIs among children and women of childbearing age from 1991 to the present in low- and middle-income countries. We searched multiple databases and the references of retrieved articles. Meta-analysis p...

Inequalities in full immunization coverage: trends in low- and middle-income countries

OBJECTIVE To investigate disparities in full immunization coverage across and within 86 low- and middle-income countries. METHODS In May 2015, using data from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, we investigated inequalities in full immunization coverage - i.e. one dose of bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine, one dose of measles vaccine, three dos...

Cancer control opportunities in low- and middle-income countries.

Achieving Universal Health Coverage by Focusing on Primary Care in Japan: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

When the Japanese government adopted Western medicine in the late nineteenth century, it left intact the infrastructure of primary care by giving licenses to the existing practitioners and by initially setting the hurdle for entry into medical school low. Public financing of hospitals was kept minimal so that almost all of their revenue came from patient charges. When social health insurance (S...