A cross sectional study on awareness about injectable polio vaccine among pregnant women and mothers of children under 14 weeks in a rural area of Kannur, North Kerala, India
| Autor: | A K Sarada, S A Thilak, Sushrit A. Neloopant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Under-five Descriptive statistics Cross-sectional study business.industry education social sciences medicine.disease Intermediate level behavioral disciplines and activities Poliomyelitis Polio vaccine Environmental health mental disorders medicine Health education Rural area business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health. :2004-2007 |
| ISSN: | 2394-6032 |
| DOI: | 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20162186 |
| Popis: | Background: Poliomyelitis, a highly infectious disease which can cause irreversible total paralysis which mainly affects the children under five years of age. As the Government was introducing the injectable polio vaccine (IPV) from April 2016 in Kerala as a part of “polio end game strategy”, the study was conducted to assess the awareness about IPV. The aim was to assess the level of knowledge about IPV and attitude towards IPV introduction in the national immunisation schedule among pregnant mothers and mothers having children |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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