A Cross Sectional Study on Immunization Status of School Going Adolescents in Indore, Madhya Pradesh

摘要

Background: With the advent of a number of new vaccines in last decade and huge money invested in immunization program by In-dian/International agencies, the results and outcome of these efforts needed to be studied and analyzed. School-age and adolescent age groups are still poorly covered areas in the field of immunization. Approach: To study exact impact of factors possibly affecting immunization coverage like gender bias against females, socio-economic status of family, maternal education and place of vaccination, this study was carried out in schools of Indore in 2000 school-going adolescents to deter-mine vaccination coverage of candidates and awareness of the parents about various aspects of immunization. Results: Results suggested a statistically significant positive impact of socio-economic status (p