Household cost-benefit equations and sustainable universal childhood immunisation: a randomised cluster controlled trial in south Pakistan ISRCTN12421731

摘要

BackgroundHousehold decision-makers decide about service use based largely on the costs and perceived benefits of health interventions. Very often this leads to different decisions than those imagined by health planners, resulting in under-utilisation of public services like immunisation. In the case of Lasbela district in the south of Pakistan, only one in every ten children is immunised despite free immunisation offers by government health services.