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Protecting the World's Children - Immunisation policies and Practices (Paperback)
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Protecting the World's Children - Immunisation policies and Practices (Paperback)
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Vaccination programmes now represent a major part of the effort
devoted to improving the health of children in developing
countries. These donor-funded programmes tend to be global in scope
and focus on worldwide goals and targets such as 'polio
eradication', and the Millennium Development Goals. Health policy
makers at the national level are expected to implement these
programmes in a standard manner and report progress according to a
few standard indicators. Pressures and incentives to achieve the
targets set are then transmitted down to the community level health
worker who actually meets the parents and children to implement the
programmes. Drawing on first hand, original research in India and
Malawi carried out by the contributors, as well as existing
literature, Protecting the World's Children: Immunisation policies
and practices suggests that there is little or no scope allowed for
the effects of variance in the way health systems work, the
difficulties and tensions faced by health workers, or differences
in the way people think about childhood illnesses that reflect
cultural differences. The book argues that the need to show
progress can create distortions and lead to the production of
misleading data and an unwillingness to report problems. It
proposes that vaccines could more effectively serve children's
health needs if immunisation programmes are better understood and
acknowledged, and if local knowledge and realities were enabled to
inform national and international health policy. Written by an
international, interdisciplinary team of experts in immunisation
policy, Protecting the World's Children is an integrative study of
immunisation policy and practice at a global, national and
community level, and is an essential resource for researchers and
practitioners in international and public health, as well as
professionals in international and development studies.
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