RESEARCH ARTICLE
Keeping Immunisation Coverage Targets in Perspective
David W. Brown*
United Nations Children’s
Fund, Three United Nations Plaza, New York 10017 USA.
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2011Volume: 5
First Page: 6
Last Page: 7
Publisher Id: TOIDJ-5-6
DOI: 10.2174/1874279301105010006
Article History:
Received Date: 19/1/2011Revision Received Date: 25/1/2011
Acceptance Date: 25/1/2011
Electronic publication date: 23/2/2011
Collection year: 2011
© 2011 Brown et al.
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Immunisation coverage targets have had a central role in global immunisation efforts. There is a growing focus on achievement of immunisation coverage targets by national immunisation programmes, particularly where targets are included as part of performance based funding arrangements. However, immunisation coverage targets should not become a distraction to national immunisation programme managers whereby short run forces to lead to a shift or abandonment of technically appropriate and sustainable activities in a country.
Keywords: Immunization programs, goals, program evaluation.
