Open AccessAn Assessment Of Awareness And Practicality Of Parents Towards Immunization Of Children In District Multan
Author(s) -
Ghulam Abbas,
Naseer Ahmad
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
statistics, computing and interdisciplinary research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2788-7464
pISSN - 2707-7101
DOI - 10.52700/scir.v1i1.19
Subject(s) - vaccination , vaccination schedule , medicine , government (linguistics) , promotion (chess) , immunization , rural area , environmental health , rural district , family medicine , socioeconomics , political science , immunology , antigen , politics , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , law
The main objective of the study to assess the parents’ knowledge attitude and practices regarding their children vaccination in District Multan, the data was collected with the help of interview schedule from 200 parents having under 2 Years children. SPSS was used for data analysis. The main findings of this research were the parent’s awareness regarding EPI vaccination is low, vaccination centers are away from the people of rural areas of district Multan that’s why the coverage of Vaccination is low in these areas, its recommended that the Government provide more EPI vaccination centers for the children of rural areas. Vaccination staff also limited so it make sure one vaccinator for the ten thousand of population. . Trained female worker like LHWs, local School Teachers, (Imam Masjid) and key persons of the community can play a vital role in the promotion of Vaccination coverage in their concern areas. Vaccination weeks will also very beneficial for the child’s vaccinations and the awareness regarding the prevention of communicable diseases in Pakistan.