Impact of national immunization days on polio-related knowledge and practice of urban women in Bangladesh.
Abdul Quaiyum,Cristobal Tunon,Abdullah H Baqui,Abdullah H Baqui,Zahidul Quay Yum,Jahanara Khatun +5 more
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The study suggests that strategies like NID can be effectively used to tap into community resources and to generate political commitments for health programmes.Citations
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Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Mass Media Interventions for Child Survival in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Danielle Naugle,Robert C. Hornik +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that mass media-centric campaigns can positively impact a wide range of child survival health behaviors and efforts to address threats to inference of mass media effects are addressed.
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The impact of the national polio immunization campaign on levels and equity in immunization coverage: evidence from rural North India.
TL;DR: The polio campaign was successful, to some extent, in reducing gender-, caste- and wealth- based inequities, but had no impact on religion- or residence-based inequities and social inequities in non-polio EPI vaccinations did not reduce during the study period.
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Are parents' knowledge and practice regarding immunization related to pediatrics' immunization compliance? a mixed method study.
Omer Qutaiba B. Al-lela,Mohd Baidi Bahari,Harith Khalid Al-Qazaz,Muhannad R M Salih,Shazia Qasim Jamshed,Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod Elkalmi +5 more
TL;DR: The study results reinforce recommendations for the periodic assessment of Immunization rate and the use of educational programmes to improve the immunization rate, knowledge and practice.
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Interventions aimed at communities to inform and/or educate about early childhood vaccination.
Ingvil Saeterdal,Simon Lewin,Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren,Claire Glenton,Susan Munabi-Babigumira +4 more
TL;DR: Low certainty evidence that interventions aimed at communities to inform and educate about childhood vaccination may improve knowledge of vaccines or vaccine-preventable diseases among intervention participants is shown.
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The Complexity of Social Mobilization in Health Communication: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Experiences in Polio Eradication
Rafael Obregon,Silvio Waisbord +1 more
TL;DR: Critical aspects of the PEI experience are examined in an attempt to move from dominant informational perspectives to a focus on emerging challenges in polio eradication efforts and new levels of complexity to SM.
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Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 1996-1997.
TL;DR: The 1996-97 Demographic and Health Survey in Bangladesh as discussed by the authors showed that fertility was about 60% higher in rural areas than urban areas and women with no education had higher fertility compared to women with at least some secondary education.
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Impact of Measles Vaccination on Childhood Mortality in Rural Bangladesh
M. A. Koenig,Mehrab Ali Khan,Bogdan Wojtyniak,John D. Clemens,Jyotsnamoy Chakraborty,Vincent Fauveau,James F. Phillips,J. Akbar,U. S. Barua +8 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that measles vaccination had a pronounced impact on both short- and long-term survival--the mortality rates for vaccinated children were as much as 46% less than those for nonvaccinated children.
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Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 1993-1994
TL;DR: This report provides the full results of the 1993-94 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey among 9640 ever married women 10-49 years old and 3284 husbands of respondents, suggesting rapid and accelerating fertility decline to 3.4 births during 1991-93 a drop of 21% from 1989-91.