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SOCIO‐ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF CHILD IMMUNIZATION IN RURAL ETHIOPIA
Author(s) -
Abebaw Degnet
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.2975
Subject(s) - immunization , logistic regression , diversity (politics) , economic growth , ethnic group , nested logit , rural area , socioeconomics , ordered logit , economics , geography , political science , medicine , econometrics , machine learning , antigen , computer science , law , immunology
Using cross section data from rural Ethiopia, this paper investigates the socio‐economic determinants of child immunization. Results of a generalized ordered logit model show that child immunization is strongly associated with child's age, housing quality, presence of health extension worker in a village, proximity to district capital, access to primary school and ethnic diversity. The paper draws both supply‐side and demand‐side implications to increase full immunization for children in rural Ethiopia. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.