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Monitoring vaccination coverage: Defining the role of surveys.

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High quality community-based vaccination coverage surveys are resource-intensive and other monitoring methods provide useful data for programme managers, which should lead to action to improve performance.
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This article is published in Vaccine.The article was published on 2016-07-29 and is currently open access. It has received 124 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Survey data collection & Selection bias.

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WHO and UNICEF Estimates of National Infant Immunization Coverage: Methods and processes/Estimations Par l'OMS et l'UNICEF Des Couvertures Vaccinales Des Nourrissons Par Pays : Methodes et procedures/Estimaciones De la OMS Y El UNICEF Sobre la Cobertura Nacional De Vacunacion De Los Lactantes: Metodos Y Procedimientos

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used trends in immunization coverage levels and trends are used to monitor the performance of immunization services locally, nationally and internationally to guide strategies for the eradication, elimination and control of vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Mapping information exposure on social media to explain differences in HPV vaccine coverage in the United States.

TL;DR: Analysis of exposure to information about HPV vaccines on Twitter found vaccine coverage was lower in states where safety concerns, misinformation, and conspiracies made up higher proportions of exposures, suggesting that negative representations of vaccines in the media may reflect or influence vaccine acceptance.
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Mapping vaccination coverage to explore the effects of delivery mechanisms and inform vaccination strategies

TL;DR: Evaluating the relative effectiveness of two major vaccine delivery strategies, namely routine immunization and supplementary immunization activities in five study countries finds that SIAs have boosted MCV coverage in some places, but not in others.
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High resolution age-structured mapping of childhood vaccination coverage in low and middle income countries

TL;DR: Remoteness, measured as travel time to nearest major settlement, was consistently a key predictor of coverage and the integration of high resolution coverage and population maps shows the districts that have attained the threshold in the study countries.
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Áreas com queda da cobertura vacinal para BCG, poliomielite e tríplice viral no Brasil (2006-2016): mapas da heterogeneidade regional

TL;DR: The study evidenced an important reduction in vaccination coverage in recent years, with major heterogeneity between municipalities, and focused attention and strategic planning are necessary to address both the reduction of vaccination coverage and the resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases in Brazil.
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Demographic and health surveys

Ann K. Blanc
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Cluster sampling to assess immunization coverage: a review of experience with a simplified sampling method.

TL;DR: The precision of this method, as estimated from the results of both actual and simulated surveys, is considered satisfactory for the requirements of the EPI.
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Timing of children's vaccinations in 45 low-income and middle-income countries: an analysis of survey data

TL;DR: An index combining coverage and delay for vaccination coverage at different ages, and delays in administration, in 45 low-income and middle-income countries is devised, with important implications for the effect of new and established vaccines on the burden of disease.
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WHO and UNICEF estimates of national infant immunization coverage: methods and processes

TL;DR: WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund annually review data on immunization coverage to estimate national coverage with routine service delivery of the following vaccines, providing an independent technical assessment of the performance of national immunization systems.
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Timeliness of Childhood Vaccinations in the United States: Days Undervaccinated and Number of Vaccines Delayed

TL;DR: More than 1 in 3 children were undervaccinated for more than 6 months during their first 24 months of life and 1 in 4 children were delayed for at least 4 vaccines.
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