POST 00972E : QUALITY VS IMMUNIZATION COVERAGE

POST 00972E : QUALITY VS IMMUNIZATION COVERAGE 7 September 2006 _____________________________________ Giridhar Babu (mailto:[email protected]) from India, requests your contributions on the above topic. _____________________________________ Dear Group Government of India has given enormous financial and technical assistance to the states for improving routine immunization. There were divisional level review meetings in Karnataka State and the following points were discussed during the meetings. I request the group to contribute towards the specific query enlisted as follows It was found that the use of AD syringes improved the immunization turnouts to a greater extent. The same phenomenon was observed as a fallout of special J.E immunization campaign subsequently after which the Govt of India has guided the state to use JE vaccine in routine immunization campaigns. These two of the many indicators suggest that use of better technology and quality of services themselves would create reasonable "DEMAND GENERATION" for services. It might be apt to know that this kind of Demand generation is seen in districts with poor literacy and in those districts who are geo-socio-economically weaker districts compared to other districts in Karnataka. 1. Do we have instances like these to support that by mere improvement of quality, we can actually increase immunization coverage levels? 2. If so, what other tools/factors apart from AD syringes can influence the quality of services to improve and thereby have a significant outcome on the immunization coverage? Please contribute With regards Dr.Giridhar Babu R Surveillance Medical Officer, NPSP-WHO Member-State Operational Core Group on Routine Immunization Karnataka-India (recently selected by "Public Health Foundation of India" for "Future Faculty Programme".) ______________________________________________________________________________ All members of the TechNet21 e-Forum are invited to send comments on any posting or to use the forum to raise a new discussion or request technical information in relation to immunization services. The comments made in this forum are the sole responsibility of the writers and do not in any way mean that they are endorsed by any of the organizations and agencies to which the authors may belong. ______________________________________________________________________________ Visit the TECHNET21 Website at http://www.technet21.org You will find instructions to subscribe, a direct access to archives, links to reference documents and other features. ______________________________________________________________________________ To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message to : mailto:[email protected] Leave the subject area BLANK In the message body, write unsubscribe TECHNET21E ______________________________________________________________________________ The World Health Organization and UNICEF support TechNet21. The TechNet21 e-Forum is a communication/information tool for generation of ideas on how to improve immunization services. It is moderated by Claude Letarte and is hosted in cooperation with the Centre de coopération internationale en santé et développement, Québec, Canada (http://www.ccisd.org) ______________________________________________________________________________