PMID- 21393307
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120321
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 1741-3850 (Electronic)
IS  - 1741-3842 (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 4
DP  - 2011 Dec
TI  - National Family Health Survey-3 reported low full-immunization coverage rates in 
      Andhra Pradesh, India: who is to be blamed?
PG  - 489-95
LID - 10.1093/pubmed/fdr022 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS: The objective is to analyse factors responsible for 
      low full-immunization coverage rate reported by NFHS-3 in AP. Data from three 
      waves of NFHS and other surveys on immunization were used for analysis. RESULTS: 
      Although full immunization coverage rate did not increase, other related 
      indicators have shown an improvement between the second and third waves of NFHS. 
      The full immunization coverage rate was significantly higher among card seen 
      category as compared with card not seen category. CONCLUSIONS: Low full 
      immunization coverage rate in AP as reported by NFHS-3, in all likelihood cannot 
      be totally attributed to poor performance of the immunization programme. Probable 
      reasons are issues related to methodological and logistic processes in NFHS, 
      which include collection of data from a wider age group, differences in data 
      collection methods, commitment levels and skill sets of investigator, fatigue 
      factor and low percentage of cards seen by investigator.
FAU - Chandran, S Anil
AU  - Chandran SA
AD  - Public Health Foundation of India, Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, 
      India.
FAU - Ramachandra, Srikrishna S
AU  - Ramachandra SS
FAU - Sekhar, P Satya
AU  - Sekhar PS
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20110309
PL  - England
TA  - J Public Health (Oxf)
JT  - Journal of public health (Oxford, England)
JID - 101188638
SB  - IM
MH  - Data Collection/methods/*standards
MH  - Family Health
MH  - Humans
MH  - Immunization/*statistics & numerical data/trends
MH  - India
MH  - Infant
MH  - National Health Programs/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2011/03/12 06:00
MHDA- 2012/03/22 06:00
CRDT- 2011/03/12 06:00
PHST- 2011/03/12 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/03/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/03/22 06:00 [medline]
AID - fdr022 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/pubmed/fdr022 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Public Health (Oxf). 2011 Dec;33(4):489-95. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdr022. Epub 
      2011 Mar 9.