Guidance

Increasing routine immunization coverage by reducing missed opportunities for vaccination

Reducing missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) is a strategy to increase immunization coverage simply by making better use of existing vaccination sites (at health centres, hospitals, outreach/mobile services etc.). The MOV strategy answers three important questions:

1. How many opportunities for vaccination are missed at existing vaccination sites?

2. Why are opportunities for vaccination being missed at the different vaccination sites?

3. What can be adjusted or done differently (e.g. policies and behaviours) so that we do not miss any opportunity to vaccinate?

Languages

  • English
  • French

Publication year

2017

Publisher

WHO

Type

Guidance

Categories

  • Global initiatives

Organisations

  • World Health Organisation (WHO)

Tags

  • Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV)

Topic references

MOV-PUBLICATIONS

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
A systematic literature review of missed opportunities for immunization in low- and middle-income countriesAnais Colombini, Bradford D. Gessner, Elise Guillermet, Nadira Maleq, Shruti Sridhar2014Journal articleEnglish
Assessment of missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) in Burkina Faso using the World Health Organization’s revised MOV strategy: Findings and strategic considerations to improve routine childhood immunization coverageBertrand Meda, Colin Sanderson, Edouard Betsem, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Isaie Médah, Lassané Kaboré, Laura Nic Lochlainn, Mâ Ouattara, Stephanie Shendale, William M.F. Kaboré2020Journal articleEnglish
Assessment of missed opportunities for vaccination in Kenyan health facilities, 2016Anyie J. Li, Colin Sanderson, Collins TABU, Iheoma U. Onuekwusi, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Isaac K. Mugoya, Kibet Sergon, Peter O. Okoth, Stephanie Shendale, Zorodzai Machekanyanga2020Journal articleEnglish
Can vaccination coverage be improved by reducing missed opportunities for vaccination? Findings from assessments in Chad and Malawi using the new WHO methodologyAnyie J. Li, Blanche-philomene Melanga Anya, Colin Sanderson, Dah Cheikh, Geoffrey Chirwa, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Joseph Okeibunor, Kwame W. Chiwaya, Mbaihol Tamadji, Mohamed El-Hafiz Djalal, Richard Mihigo, Zorodzai Machekanyanga2019Journal articleEnglish
Increasing routine immunization coverage by reducing missed opportunities for vaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2017GuidanceEnglish, French
Intervention guidebook for implementing and monitoring activities to reduce Missed Opportunities for VaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2019GuidanceEnglish
Missed opportunities for vaccination among children aged 0–23 months visiting health facilities in a southwest State of Nigeria, December 2019Akinola Ayoola Fatiregun, Elvis Isere, Fiona Braka, Francis Adegoke Akanbiemu, Itse Olaoye, Kofi Boateng, Lassané Kaboré, Laura Nic Lochlainn, Modupeola Dosumu, Richard Banda, Rosemary Onyibe, Yetunde Olagbuji2021Journal articleEnglish
Opportunities to improve vaccination coverage in a country with a fledgling health system: Findings from an assessment of missed opportunities for vaccination among health center attendees—Timor Leste, 2016Anyie J. Li, Colin Sanderson, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Laura Nic Lochlainn, Manuel Mausiry, Rosye Bela Joana Benevides Monizda Silva, Thelge Sudath Rohana Peiris2019Journal articleEnglish
Planning Guide to Reduce Missed Opportunities for VaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2017GuidanceEnglish, French, Portuguese
Qualitative insights into reasons for missed opportunities for vaccination in Kenyan health facilitiesAnyie J. Li, Collins TABU, Ephantus Maree, Iheoma U. Onuekwusi, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Isaac K. Mugoya, Kibet Sergon, Peter O. Okoth, Stephanie Shendale, Zorodzai Machekanyanga2020Journal articleEnglish
Reducing missed opportunities for vaccination in Mozambique: findings from a cross-sectional assessment conducted in 2017Bvudzai Priscilla Magadzire, Gabriel Joao, Graça Matsinhe, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Laura Nic Lochlainn, Ruth Bechtel2021Journal articleEnglish
Reducing missed opportunities for vaccination in selected provinces of Mozambique: A study protocolIkechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Stephanie Shendale, Gabriel Joao, Bvudzai Priscilla MagadzireJournal articleEnglish
Studies of missed opportunities for immunization in developing and industrialized countriesH.A.F.M. Jansen, P. Evans, R.J. Kim-Farley, S.E. Robertson, S.S. Hutchins1993Journal articleEnglish