.................................................................................................................................... vii 1.0 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Overview of the problem ....................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Aim ......................................................................................................................................... 3 1.3 Research question ................................................................................................................. 3 1.4 Relevance and contribution to health promotion .................................................................. 3 2.0 Literature Review ................................................................................................................................. 6 2.1 Background ........................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Review of previous studies .................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Emerging issues and the need for empirical research ........................................................ 13 2.4 Conceptual framework ........................................................................................................ 14 3.0 Methods ................................................................................................................................................ 17 3.1 Study design......................................................................................................................... 19 3.2 Participants ......................................................................................................................... 21 3.3 Measures ............................................................................................................................. 21 3.4 Data analysis ....................................................................................................................... 26 3.5 Quality assurance ................................................................................................................ 26 3.6 Ethical considerations ......................................................................................................... 27 4.0 Results .................................................................................................................................................. 28 5.0 Discussion............................................................................................................................................. 48 5.1 Implications ......................................................................................................................... 55 5.2 Recommendations................................................................................................................ 57

background or methods

Women’s Decision Making Autonomy and Childhood Immunization Uptake in Nigeria

Comparative Regional-level Analysis of Complete Child Immunization in Ghana

Background: The Global Vaccine Action Plan sets a target of 90% child immunisation coverage, a rare
 achievement in the Global South. Yet two of the poorest of Ghana’s 10 regions have accomplished this feat-what
 can policy-makers and public health authorities learn from these ‘positive deviant’ regions (PDRs), to inform
 immunisation strategies elsewhere in the South?
Methods: Using cluster analysis and data from the 2008 Ghana DHS, seven regional-level factors were
 investigated that might account for differences in immunisation coverage: ethnicity/religion, socioeconomic status,
 maternal health literacy and decision latitude, use of maternal health facilities, participation in child vaccination campaigns, and availability of community health infrastructure. Rank orders of the 10 regions on these factors were
 examined for the degree to which the PDRs were similar to each other, and dissimilar to the other eight regions.
Results: The PDRs were not similar to each other on any of the regional-level factors. Contrariwise, the PDRs
 clustered only at the highest stage of agglomeration in the analyses. Thus, the two PDRs do not closely share
 regional-level characteristics that might explain their PD status, with the study thus failing to differentiate the PDRs
 from the other regions.
Conclusions: The heterogeneity exhibited by the PDRs is actually reason for optimism, suggesting that even the
 poorest regions in the South, with disparate characteristics and social situations, can achieve excellent child
 immunisation coverage. It may be that nation-wide ‘one-size-fits-all’ government campaigns to encourage child
 immunisation should be supplemented, or even replaced, by small area, targeted efforts fit-to-purpose and fit-tolocal-
 conditions.

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Women’s Decision Making Autonomy and Childhood Immunization Uptake in Nigeria

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Comparative Regional-level Analysis of Complete Child Immunization in Ghana

Complete Child Immunisation: A Cluster Analysis of Positive Deviant Regions in Ghana

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