Predictors of incomplete immunization coverage among one to five years old children in Togo

BMC Public Health

Research Article

Sheba Nakacubo Gitta¹  Peter Wasswa¹  Issifou Yaya²  Anani Lacle³  Danladi Ibrahim Nassoury³  Farihétou Ouro-kavalah³  Abdramane Bassiahi Soura⁴  Dadja Essoya Landoh⁵  Anna-Lea Kahn⁶ 

[1] African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), Kampala, Uganda;Aix-Marseille Université INSERM, IRD, SESSTIM, Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé &Traitement de l’Information Médicale, Marseille, France;ORS PACA, Observatoire régional de la santé Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France;Unité de Recherche Démographique (URD) Université, Lomé, Togo;Division de l’épidémiologie, Ministère de la Santé du Togo, Lomé, Togo;Institut supérieur des sciences de la population (ISSP), ISSP, Université de Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso;World Health Organization, Country office, Togo, Lomé, Togo;World Health Organization, Headquarters, Genève, Switzerland;

关键词: Immunization;    Children;    Vaccine coverage;    Togo;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-016-3625-5

 received in 2016-07-15, accepted in 2016-09-01,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundIncompleteness of vaccination coverage among children is a major public health concern because itcontinues to sustain a high prevalence of vaccine-preventable diseases in some countries. In Togo, very few data on the factors associated with incomplete vaccination coverage among children have been published. We determined the prevalence of incomplete immunization coverage in children aged one to five years in Togo and associated factors.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study using secondary data from the 2010 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS4) conducted in 2010 among children aged 1 to 5 years in Togo. This survey was conducted over a period of two months from September to November, 2010.ResultsDuring Togo’sMICS4 survey, 2067 children met the inclusion criteria for our study. Female children accounted for 50.9 % (1051/2067) of the sample and 1372 (66.4 %) lived in rural areas. The majority of children (92.2 %; 1905/2067) lived with both parents and 30 % of the head of households interviewed were not schooled (620/2067). At the time of the survey, 36.2 % (750/2067) of the children had not received all vaccines recommended by Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI).In multivariate analysis, factors associated with incompleteness of immunization at 1 year were: health region of residences (Maritime aOR = 0.650; p = 0.043; Savanes: aOR = 0.324; p <0.001), non-schooled mother (aOR = 1.725; p = 0.002),standard of living (poor: aOR = 1.668; p = 0.013; medium: aOR = 1.393; p = 0.090) and the following characteristics of the household heads: sex (aOR = 1.465; p = 0.034), marital status (aOR = 1.591; p = 0.032), education level(non-educated: aOR = 1.435; p = 0.027.ConclusionThe incomplete immunization coverage among children in Togo remains high. It is necessary to strengthen health promotion among the population in order to improve the use of immunization services that are essential to reduce morbidity and mortality among under five years old children.

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