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The Decade of Vaccine Economics (DOVE) aims to generate economic evidence on vaccine impact in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Beginning in 2011, Phases I-III focused on building economic...
As low- and middle-income countries expand domestic investment in vaccines, data on the economic value of these investments can help decision-makers compare the benefits of vaccination with other...
VIEW-hub is an open-access data visualization tool that displays data on vaccine introduction, use, coverage, access, impact, and disease burden for nine vaccines, including measles-containing...
VIEW-hub is an open-access data visualization tool that displays data on vaccine introduction, use, coverage, access, impact, and disease burden for nine vaccines, including measles-containing...
VIEW-hub is an open-access data visualization tool that displays data on vaccine introduction, use, coverage, access, impact, and disease burden for nine vaccines, including the HPV vaccine.
VIEW-hub is an open-access data visualization tool that displays data on vaccine introduction, use, coverage, access, impact, and disease burden for nine vaccines, including the rotavirus vaccine.
Th study concludes that scannable forms can facilitate efficient data entry, but certain features of the forms, as well as the workflow and infrastructure into which they are incorporated, should be...
... There are many existing solutions for low-cost, high-quality data collection, management and analysis. Many of these systems are built on open-source technologies and thus are more amenable to...
VIEW-hub is an open-access data visualization tool that displays data on vaccine introduction, use, coverage, access, impact, and disease burden for nine vaccines, including the pneumococcal...
Collection of timely and accurate immunization information is essential for effective immunization programs. Current immunization information systems have important limitations that impact the...
Immunization staffs have a central role with EIRs as they are the ones who input data into the system that the systems need to function, as well as utilize the data in the system to perform their...
Purpose
This paper reflects on the activities of the Ethics Committee of the American College of Epidemiology (ACE). Members of the Ethics Committee identified an opportunity to elaborate on...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness and cost of bidirectional short messaging service in increasing rates of vaccination and well child care (WCC) among adolescents.
METHODS: We included all...
Response to an article - Dear Editors,
Felicity Cutts and co-authors [Vaccine 34 (2016) 4103–4109]
provide a good overview of the role of household surveys in monitoring
of immunization...
Timeliness of Receipt of Early Childhood Vaccinations Among Children of Immigrants — Minnesota, 2016
Receiving recommended childhood vaccinations on schedule is the best way to prevent the occurrence and spread of vaccine-preventable diseases (1). Vaccination coverage among children aged 19–35...
A cold chain expert and a Ministry of Health (MOH) technician used Nexleaf Analytics’ ColdTrace
remote temperature monitoring (RTM) dashboard data to remotely identify every failing fridge...
A short article on data management during the ebola outbreak in 2014-2015, and some new perspectives and lessons learned from working with weak health management information systems during health...
Authors examine this research-to-practice gap and delineate the facilitators and barriers to the effective implementation and use of maternal and child health HBRs especially in low- and...
This document provides a summary of MCSP/JSI’s experience in the adaptation of the regional Reaching Every District (RED) guideline to country-specific contexts in order to inform other countries...
This report describes global progress toward meeting World Health Organization (WHO) indicators on minimal country capacity for vaccine safety surveillance and coordina- tion of AEFI reporting...
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the vaccination numbers for immunization geared toward individuals under 12 months of age in Brazil. This study analyzed the...
Immunization is at the very core of health programs around the world yet its performance is commonly measured by just a single number, namely coverage with a third dose of a vaccine that protects...
Using high-quality routine immunization data is critical to helping health officials and managers plan services and make decisions that enable them to reach every child with immunization. As the...
RIPOSTE À LA PANDÉMIE DE COVID-19 PAR LA SANTÉ NUMÉRIQUE : DES ENSEIGNEMENTS POUR GUIDER LES INVESTISSEMENTS ACTUELS ET FUTURS DANS LA SANTÉ NUMÉRIQUE
DIGITAL HEALTH RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: LESSONS TO INFORM ONGOING AND FUTURE DIGITAL HEALTH INVESTMENTS
BACKGROUND: The use of GIS in public health is growing, a consequence of a rapidly evolving technology and increasing accessibility to a wider audience. Google Earth (GE) is becoming an important...
BACKGROUND Barriers and facilitators of mobile app adoption are not known. This study examined usage of a new Pan-Canadian immunization app to identify factors that contributed to usage. METHODS...
Abstract
Aims: Postnatal care of the newborn is essential in order to reduce neonatal mortality. Nepal has made great efforts to
improve maternal and child health by focusing on accessibility and...
This document recommends supply chain and related performance indicators for health programs to use to monitor and improve the availability of the 13 key life-saving commodities of the UN Commission...
Update
ISO 10781:2015 provides a reference list of functions that may be present in an Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S). The function list is described from a user perspective with the intent...
Immunization saves millions of lives against vaccine-preventable diseases. Yet, 24 million children born every year do not receive proper immunization during their first year. UNICEF and WHO have...
PROBLEM: Field trials require extensive data preparation and complex logistics. The use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) can bypass
many of the traditional steps that are necessary in a...
Vaccination coverage survey - Publication abstract: A simplified cluster sampling method, involving the random selection of 210 children in 30 clusters of 7 each, has been used by the Expanded...
This study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) and participation in the routine infant vaccination programme in the...
Introduction: Reaching the children that are chronically missed by routine immunization services has
been a key pillar of success in achieving progress toward polio eradication. The rapid...
CONTEXT:: Immunizations are the most effective way to reduce incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases. Immunization information systems (IISs) are confidential- population-based- computerized...
The rationale for- and establishment of- a computer-assisted- centralized immunization registry are described. This registry was created to improve the quality and quantity of information regarding...
Home-based records have been used in both low- and high-income countries to improve maternal and child health. We define a function–capacity conceptual framework for home-based records showing how...
The collection, analysis, and use of data to measure and improve immunization programme performance are priorities for WHO, global partners and national immunization programmes (NIPs). High quality...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to disruptions to routine immunization programs in India and around the world, setting the stage for potentially serious outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.
This...
This commentary further raises awareness of the role of home-based records within immunization service delivery, describes a user-centered focused workshop conducted in South Asia in March 2016 and...
BACKGROUND: Although vaccination has been proved to be a safe- efficacious- and cost-effective intervention- immunisation rates remain suboptimal in many European countries- resulting in poor control...
Vaccination coverage has improved in the past decade, but inequalities persist: the poorest, least educated, and rural communities are left behind. Programming has focused on increasing coverage and...
OBJECTIVE:
Immunization rates among medicine and nursing students -and among health professional in general- during hospital training are low. It is necessary to investigate the causes for these...
Child Health Information Systems (CHISs) are computerised clinical record systems which support a range of health promotion and prevention activities for children- including immunisation and...
Principles of computer systems for the organization and management of immunoprophylaxis in VR Bulgaria and the DDR.
Update on the occurrence of home-based record stock-outs reported by national immunization programmes.