Assessing the characteristics of un- and under-vaccinated children in low- and middle-income countries: A multi-level cross-sectional study

Communities at risk of non- and under-vaccination are often characterized by poverty, lack of access to health care and other basic services, civil/political unrest, poor sanitation practices, overcrowding, etc.

In 2017, the Equity Reference Group (ERG) for immunization identified these to be remote-rural, urban slums and conflict-affected areas.

To target these at risk groups effectively, robust and current evidence on their population sizes, geographic distribution, immunisation levels, and other characteristics is needed.

A global scale work undertaken by WorldPop seeks to address this need.

Goal of current analysis:

“to investigate and quantify the relationships between non- and under-vaccination and key community variables–remoteness, conflict and urban slum—both when and when not controlling for other factors in nine LMICs”.