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Information nudges for influenza vaccination: Evidence from a large-scale cluster-randomized controlled trial in Finland.

PLoS Medicine, 2022
BackgroundVaccination is the most effective means of preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Despite the proven benefits of vaccination, vaccine hesitancy keeps many people from getting vaccinated.Methods and findingsWe conducted a large-scale ...
Lauri Sääksvuori, Cornelia Betsch, Hanna Nohynek, Heini Salo, Jonas Sivelä, Robert Böhm   +5 more
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High coverage and adherence to dose intervals of the national school-based HPV vaccination program in Sweden during 2012–2019

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023
Background: Close monitoring of vaccination coverage is important for cervical cancer prevention efforts. The study aims to describe the HPV vaccination coverage by dose in girls eligible for HPV vaccination within Sweden’s childhood immunization program
Jiangrong Wang, Eva Herweijer, Sara Nordqvist Kleppe, Susanne Hartwig, Christine Velicer, Carol Koro, Karin Sundström   +6 more
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Implementing WHO guidance on conducting and analysing vaccination coverage cluster surveys: Two examples from Nigeria.

PLoS ONE, 2021
In 2015, the World Health Organization substantially revised its guidance for vaccination coverage cluster surveys (revisions were finalized in 2018) and has since developed a set of accompanying resources, including definitions for standardized coverage
John Ndegwa Wagai, Dale Rhoda, Mary Prier, Mary Kay Trimmer, Caitlin B Clary, Joseph Oteri, Bassey Okposen, Adeyemi Adeniran, Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Felicity Cutts   +9 more
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Development of Dog Vaccination Strategies to Maintain Herd Immunity against Rabies

Viruses, 2022
Human rabies can be prevented through mass dog vaccination campaigns; however, in rabies endemic countries, pulsed central point campaigns do not always achieve the recommended coverage of 70%.
Ahmed Lugelo, Katie Hampson, Elaine A. Ferguson, Anna Czupryna, Machunde Bigambo, Christian Tetteh Duamor, Rudovick Kazwala, Paul C. D. Johnson, Felix Lankester   +8 more
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Financial Interventions to Increase Vaccine Coverage [PDF]

Pediatrics, 2020
BACKGROUND: Recent vaccine mandates in Australia, as in other high income settings, have sought to change the behavior of parents, including those who would otherwise access nonmedical exemptions.
Katie, Attwell, Rebecca, Seth, Frank, Beard, Alexandra, Hendry, David, Lawrence   +4 more
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Vaccination coverage, delay and loss to follow-up of the triple viral vaccine, in live births between 2017 and 2018 in Brazilian cities [PDF]

Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
Objective To estimate measles-mumps-rubella vaccination coverage, delay and loss to follow-up in children up to 24 months old living in Brazilian cities.
Tatiana Lang D’Agostini, Fernanda Florencia Fregnan Zambom, José Cássio de Moraes, Ana Paula França, Jéssica Pires de Camargo, Manoel Carlos Sampaio de Almeida Ribeiro, Rita Barradas Barata, Adriana Ilha da Silva, Alberto Novaes Ramos Jr., Ana Paula França, Andrea de Nazaré Marvão Oliveira, Antonio Fernando Boing, Carla Magda Allan Santos Domingues, Consuelo Silva de Oliveira, Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel, Ione Aquemi Guibu, Isabelle Ribeiro Barbosa Mirabal, Jaqueline Caracas Barbosa, Jaqueline Costa Lima, José Cássio de Moraes, Karin Regina Luhm, Karlla Antonieta Amorim Caetano, Luisa Helena de Oliveira Lima, Maria Bernadete de Cerqueira Antunes, Maria da Gloria Teixeira, Maria Denise de Castro Teixeira, Maria Fernanda de Sousa Oliveira Borges, Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel, Rita Barradas Barata, Roberta Nogueira Calandrini de Azevedo, Sandra Maria do Valle Leone de Oliveira, Sheila Araújo Teles, Silvana Granado Nogueira da Gama, Sotero Serrate Mengue, Taynãna César Simões, Valdir Nascimento, Wildo Navegantes de Araújo   +37 more
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Vaccination coverage and reasons for non-vaccination in a district of Istanbul [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2006
Abstract Background In order to control and eliminate the vaccine preventable diseases it is important to know the vaccination coverage and reasons for non-vaccination. The primary objective of this study was to determine the complete vaccination rate; the reasons for non-vaccination and the predictors that influence ...
Bakırcı Nadi, Torun Sebahat D
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Sustained Increase in Very Low Influenza Vaccination Coverage in Residents and Healthcare Workers of Long-Term Care Facilities in Austria after Educational Interventions

Vaccines, 2023
Residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are particularly at risk for influenza infections. We aimed to improve influenza vaccination coverage among residents and healthcare workers (HCWs) in four LTCFs by implementing educational programs and ...
Johannes Boyer, Elisabeth König, Herwig Friedl, Christian Pux, Michael Uhlmann, Walter Schippinger, Robert Krause, Ines Zollner-Schwetz   +7 more
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Age-appropriate vaccination coverage and its determinants for the polio containing vaccine 1-3 and measles-containing vaccine doses in Zhejiang province, China: A community-based cross-sectional study

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020
Background: This study aimed to evaluate the age-appropriate coverage and its associated risk factors for the primary vaccination of Polio containing vaccine (PCV) and measles-containing vaccine (MCV) through the secondary use of the 2018 Zhejiang ...
Yu Hu, Yaping Chen, Ying Wang, Hu Liang, Huakun Lv   +4 more
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Whom and where are we not vaccinating? Coverage after the introduction of a new conjugate vaccine against group A meningococcus in Niger in 2010. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
MenAfriVac is a new conjugate vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A developed for the African "meningitis belt". In Niger, the first two phases of the MenAfriVac introduction campaign were conducted targeting 3,135,942 individuals aged 1 to ...
Sung Hye Kim, Lorenzo Pezzoli, Harouna Yacouba, Tiekoura Coulibaly, Mamoudou H Djingarey, William A Perea, Thomas F Wierzba   +6 more
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