Why the study?
Do polio eradication activities impact routine immunization coverage rates in infants in polio-endemic countries?
Population
Infants in the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization, specifically in five polio-endemic…
Design
Other
Follow-up
1990 to 1994
Authors
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May support integration of polio eradication with routine services without coverage loss; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Do polio eradication activities impact routine immunization coverage rates in infants in polio-endemic countries?
Polio eradication activities involving supplementary oral polio vaccine immunization were associated with maintained or improved routine infant immunization coverage in five polio-endemic countries in the Western Pacific.
Aylward et al. (1997) studied this question.
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