作者
Peter Austin Morton Ntenda, Owen Nkoka, Andrè Wendindonde Nana, Precious Majoni, Thomas Gabriel Mhone, Tinashe Tizifa, Edward Tisungane Mwenyenkulu, Jane Flora Kazambwe, Nuntiput Putthanachote, Mfundi President Stam Motsa
发表日期
2019/9/6
期刊
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
卷号
113
期号
9
页码范围
534-544
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background
Between 2010 and 2015, the percentage of children 12–23 months of age who received full immunization in Malawi decreased from 81% to 76%, prompting us to investigate the factors associated with completion of childhood immunization in Malawi.
Methods
Using data from the 2015–16 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey, generalized linear mixed models were applied on 3145 children 12–23 months of age nested within 850 communities. Complete immunization was defined as the child having received a Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, three doses of pentavalent vaccine, four doses of oral polio vaccine, three doses of pneumococcal vaccine, two doses of rotavirus vaccine and one dose of measles vaccine before their first birthday.
Results
Adjusted multilevel regression showed that children born to mothers with either none or one …
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