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?
Authors
Languages
- English
- French
Publication year
2017
Publisher
WHO
Type
Guidance
Categories
- Global initiatives
Organisations
- WHO
Tags
- Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV)
Topic references
MOV-PUBLICATIONS
| Title | Author | Year | Type | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A systematic literature review of missed opportunities for immunization in low- and middle-income countries | Anais Colombini, Bradford D. Gessner, Elise Guillermet, Nadira Maleq, Shruti Sridhar | 2014 | Journal article | English |
| 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 coverage | Bertrand Meda, Colin Sanderson, Edouard Betsem, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Isaie Médah, Lassané Kaboré, Laura Nic Lochlainn, Mâ Ouattara, Stephanie Shendale, William M.F. Kaboré | 2020 | Journal article | English |
| Assessment of missed opportunities for vaccination in Kenyan health facilities, 2016 | Anyie J. Li, Colin Sanderson, Collins TABU, Iheoma U. Onuekwusi, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Isaac K. Mugoya, Kibet Sergon, Peter O. Okoth, Stephanie Shendale, Zorodzai Machekanyanga | 2020 | Journal article | English |
| Can vaccination coverage be improved by reducing missed opportunities for vaccination? Findings from assessments in Chad and Malawi using the new WHO methodology | Anyie 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 Machekanyanga | 2019 | Journal article | English |
| Increasing routine immunization coverage by reducing missed opportunities for vaccination | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2017 | Guidance | English, French |
| Intervention guidebook for implementing and monitoring activities to reduce Missed Opportunities for Vaccination | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2019 | Guidance | English |
| Missed opportunities for vaccination among children aged 0–23 months visiting health facilities in a southwest State of Nigeria, December 2019 | Akinola 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 Olagbuji | 2021 | Journal article | English |
| 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, 2016 | Anyie J. Li, Colin Sanderson, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Laura Nic Lochlainn, Manuel Mausiry, Rosye Bela Joana Benevides Monizda Silva, Thelge Sudath Rohana Peiris | 2019 | Journal article | English |
| Planning Guide to Reduce Missed Opportunities for Vaccination | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2017 | Guidance | English, French, Portuguese |
| Qualitative insights into reasons for missed opportunities for vaccination in Kenyan health facilities | Anyie J. Li, Collins TABU, Ephantus Maree, Iheoma U. Onuekwusi, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Isaac K. Mugoya, Kibet Sergon, Peter O. Okoth, Stephanie Shendale, Zorodzai Machekanyanga | 2020 | Journal article | English |
| Reducing missed opportunities for vaccination in Mozambique: findings from a cross-sectional assessment conducted in 2017 | Bvudzai Priscilla Magadzire, Gabriel Joao, Graça Matsinhe, Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Laura Nic Lochlainn, Ruth Bechtel | 2021 | Journal article | English |
| Reducing missed opportunities for vaccination in selected provinces of Mozambique: A study protocol | Ikechukwu Udo OGBUANU, Stephanie Shendale, Gabriel Joao, Bvudzai Priscilla Magadzire | Journal article | English | |
| Studies of missed opportunities for immunization in developing and industrialized countries | H.A.F.M. Jansen, P. Evans, R.J. Kim-Farley, S.E. Robertson, S.S. Hutchins | 1993 | Journal article | English |
