Guidance

Intervention guidebook for implementing and monitoring activities to reduce Missed Opportunities for Vaccination

The Intervention Guidebook provides tips for planning actions to reduce or prevent MOV, even when a full MOV assessment has not been conducted. Alternative assessment options are also described, such as the MOV-lite option (e.g. integrating a MOV component into another planned assessment, conducting a MOV workshop informed by data already available in-country or a small-scale health facility MOV assessment). This guide also includes frequent reasons for MOV, potential interventions to reduce MOV, examples of job aids and other materials for use at the health facility level.

Languages

  • English
  • French

Publication year

2019

Type

Guidance

Categories

  • Programme management

Organisations

  • World Health Organisation (WHO)

Tags

  • Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV)

Topic references

EPI-CORE-MOV

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Intervention guidebook for implementing and monitoring activities to reduce Missed Opportunities for VaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2019GuidanceEnglish, French
Methodology for the Assessment of Missed Opportunities for VaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2017GuidanceEnglish, French, Portuguese
Planning Guide to Reduce Missed Opportunities for VaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2017GuidanceEnglish, French, Portuguese

LIFECOURSE_RESOURCES

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Considerations for integrating COVID-19 vaccination into immunization programmes and primary health care for 2022 and beyondWorld Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF2023GuidanceEnglish
Establishing and strengthening immunization in the second year of life (2YL) - resource pageWorld Health Organization (WHO)RepositoryEnglish, French
Establishing and strengthening immunization in the second year of life: Practices for immunization beyond infancyWorld Health Organization (WHO)GuidanceEnglish, French, Portuguese
Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One BehindIA2030 PartnershipGuidanceArabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Intervention guidebook for implementing and monitoring activities to reduce Missed Opportunities for VaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2019GuidanceEnglish, French
Leave No One Behind: Guidance for planning and implementing catch-up vaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020GuidanceEnglish, French, Portuguese
Options for linking health interventions for adolescents with HPV vaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2014GuidanceEnglish, French, Russian, Spanish
WHO recommendations for routine immunization - summary tablesWorld Health Organization (WHO)RepositoryEnglish
Working together: An integration resource guide for planning and strengthening immunization services throughout the life courseWorld Health Organization (WHO)2018Case studyEnglish, French
Working Together: An integration resource guide for services throughout the life courseWorld Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceEnglish, French

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, French
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