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Delayed Vaccination in Infants in an Urban Health Center in Delhi, India: Evidence from a Retrospective Audit of Secondary Data
- Source :
- MAMC Journal of Medical Sciences, Vol 6, Iss 2, Pp 97-99 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background: Delayed vaccination in infants significantly increases the susceptibility window for vaccine preventable diseases. Objective: We conducted a retrospective audit of secondary data to determine the rates of delayed vaccination among infants reporting for routine immunization at an urban primary healthcare clinic in Delhi, India. Methods: Data were extracted from the manual register of the health clinic and entered in MS-Excel 2013. Results: We analyzed a total of 811 vaccination encounters in infants. Delayed vaccination was observed in 144 (17.8%) vaccination encounters. The proportion of delayed vaccination encounters progressively increased from penta-1 (lowest) to penta-3 (highest). However, the proportion of overall delayed vaccination encounters did not differ significantly across gender (P = 0.71). Conclusions: Delayed vaccination among infants continues to exist as a significant but largely avoidable public health challenge in certain health settings in India.
- Subjects :
- delayed vaccination
immunization
india
Medicine
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23947438
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- MAMC Journal of Medical Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.45c949710b164dbb8aa538179f47606a
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4103/mamcjms.mamcjms_20_20