Assessing the Effectiveness of House-to-House Visits on Routine Oral Polio Immunization Completion and Tracking of Defaulters

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• Alternative Title:
  J Health Popul Nutr
• Personal Author:
  Curry, Dora Ward ; Perry, Henry B. ; Tirmizi, Syed N. ; Goldstein, Allison L. ; Lynch, Meg C.
• Description:
  Strengthening routine immunization is one of the four prongs of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Using data collected through 30-cluster sample household surveys of caretakers of children aged 12-23 months, this paper assessed the effectiveness of house-to-house visits on routine oral polio immunization completion, using simple frequency tables, bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses. Logistic regression results demonstrated that children in households where the caregivers reported receiving a household visit by health workers were more likely to be fully immunized for polio through routine immunization than other children, although results were significant only after correcting for confounders. In Ethiopia and India, children of caregivers who remembered a house-to-house visit were significantly and positively associated with routine polio vaccination completion (OR = 2.2 and OR = 2.2 respectively). In Angola, the association was positive, though not significant (OR = 1.3). The evidence suggests that targeting high-risk areas for house-to-house visits played a role in increasing routine polio vaccination.
• Subjects:
  Administration, Oral Caregivers Cluster Analysis Community Health Workers Defaulter Tracking Female Home Visits House Calls Humans Immunization Immunization Programs Infant Male Odds Ratio Oral Polio Immunization Original Papers Polio Eradication Poliomyelitis Program Evaluation Routine Immunization

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• Source:
  J Health Popul Nutr. 2011; 32(2):356-366.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Angola ; Ethiopia ; India
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2a33465805f01bfe0873efd2e04d67bbee809a9bab886fe090029efe9f862299
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/27273/cdc_27273_DS1.pdf
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