This study determined the effect of health-education intervention programme on health-seeking practices and treatment –preferences for mothers having under-five children with febrile-illness .Quasi Experimental research design was conducted among attended primary health care centres immunization in selected Primary Health Care s Ogbomoso Pre Post self-structured questionnaire were used to colle...

BACKGROUND The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) to the U.S. recommended childhood immunization schedule in the year 2000 added three injections to the number of vaccinations a child is expected to receive during the first year of life. Surveys have suggested that the addition of PCV has led some immunization providers to move other routine childhood vaccinations to later age...

OBJECTIVE To compare the proportion of children who developed a specified illness in the 7 day post-vaccination window, with the background rate of the same event in the 7 day pre-vaccination window. STUDY DESIGN Risk interval approach (Self-controlled case-series). SETTING Well Baby Clinic of Christian Medical College, Vellore. PARTICIPANTS 1602 healthy infants and under-six children pre...

Immunization is an effort to actively generate or increase a person's immunity against disease, so that if one day he attacked by the will only experience mild illness. Community service was carried out in Situ Udik Village about importance of complete basic immunization because, there still lack knowledge, namely, mother's knowledge frequency and timing giving babies because mothers rarely rea...

Since 2010, Denmark has included the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugated vaccine (PCV-13) in the childhood immunization programme. However, serotype 3 remains as an important cause of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in Denmark. IPD surveillance data (1999-2016) was used to calculate the incidence and age-distribution of serotype 3 IPD, and the effect of PCV-13 on serotype 3 IPD incidence was ...

  Background: Despite the effective pre- and post-exposure treatments, at least 60,000 deaths from rabies occur worldwide every year. Post-exposure treatment is considered as one of the most significant measures for preventing human deaths in exposed individuals. The 2-1-1 rabies post-exposure treatment schedule known as Zagreb regimen is an abbreviated immunization plan in which a tissue cultu...

BACKGROUND One of the most common barriers to improving immunization coverage rates is human resources and its management. In the Republic of Georgia, a country where widespread health care reforms have taken place over the last decade, an intervention was recently implemented to strengthen performance of immunization programs. A range of measures were taken to ensure that immunization managers...