Risk factors for incomplete vaccination and missed opportunity for immunization in rural Mozambique
Open Access
- 16 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 8 (1), 161
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-161
Abstract
Inadequate levels of immunization against childhood diseases remain a significant public health problem in resource-poor areas of the globe. Nonetheless, the reasons for incomplete vaccination and non-uptake of immunization services are poorly understood. This study aimed at finding out the reasons for non-vaccination and the magnitude of missed opportunities for vaccination in children less than two years of age in a rural area in southern Mozambique.Keywords
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