Hemanthi

Veteran Senior contributor Specialist (2)

 Ethics, Big Data and Computing in Epidemiology and Public Health...

 Comments on ‘‘Monitoring vaccination coverage: Defining the role of surveys”...

 Timeliness of Receipt of Early Childhood Vaccinations Among Children of Immigrants — Minnesota, 2016...

 Essential newborn care after home delivery in Nepal...

 Design and Validation of a Questionnaire on Vaccination in Students of Health Sciences, Spain...

 Consultancy services for conducting an evaluation of immunisation coverage monitoring methodology and process...

 Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Coverage Among Girls Before 13 Years: A Birth Year Cohort Analysis of the National Immunization Survey-Teen, 2008-2013...

 Redefining vaccination coverage and timeliness measures using electronic immunization registry data in low- and middle-income countries...

 Monitoring polio supplementary immunization activities using an automated short text messaging system in Karachi, Pakistan
Problem Polio remains endemic in many areas of Pakistan, including large urban centres such as Karachi.
Approach During each of seven supplementary immunization activities against polio in Karachi, mobile phone numbers of the caregivers of a random sample of eligible children were obtained. A computer-based system was developed to send two questions – as short message service (SMS) texts – automatically to each number after the immunization activity: “Did the vaccinator visit your house?” and “Did the enrolled child in your household receive oral polio vaccine?” Persistent non-responders were phoned directly by an investigator.
Local setting A cluster sampling technique was used to select representative samples of the caregivers of young children in Karachi in general and of such caregivers in three of the six “high-risk” districts of the city where polio cases were detected in 2011.
Relevant changes In most of the supplementary immunization activities investigated, vaccine coverages estima
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 Assessing electronic immunization registries: the Pan American Health Organization experience...

 Editorial: The use of innovations (ODK) supporting country level Integrated Supportive Supervision real time documentation....

 Measuring the performance of vaccination programs using cross-sectional surveys: a likelihood framework and retrospective analysis....

 Seroepidemiology: an underused tool for designing and monitoring vaccination programmes in low- and middleincome countries...

 Sample Size and Budget Calculator for Coverage Surveys...

 Questing the Mychild Solution in Afghanistan...