National Family Health Survey-3 reported low full-immunization coverage rates in Andhra Pradesh, India: who is to be blamed? | Zendy

S Anil Chandran | Zendy; Srikrishna Sulgodu Ramachandra | Zendy; P. S. Sekhar | Zendy

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National Family Health Survey-3 reported low full-immunization coverage rates in Andhra Pradesh, India: who is to be blamed?

Author(s) -

S Anil Chandran,

Srikrishna Sulgodu Ramachandra,

P. S. Sekhar

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdr022

Subject(s) - immunization , medicine , demography , family health , logistic regression , environmental health , public health , immunology , nursing , antigen , sociology

National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), the Indian counterpart of Demographic and Health Surveys, are the most recognized surveys in India and provide reliable measures of RCH indicators. But NFHS-3 figures on full immunization coverage rate for the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) is very low compared with seven other major surveys on immunization carried out around the same time period.

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