Patient reminder and recall interventions to improve immunization rates

JCJ Vann, RM Jacobson… - Cochrane Database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Immunization rates for children and adults are rising, but coverage levels have
not reached optimal goals. As a result, vaccine‐preventable diseases still occur. In an era of …

Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low‐and middle‐income countries

A Oyo-Ita, O Oduwole, D Arikpo, EE Effa… - Cochrane Database …, 2023 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Immunisation plays a major role in reducing childhood morbidity and mortality.
Getting children immunised against potentially fatal and debilitating vaccine‐preventable …

Behavioral interventions for vaccination uptake: A systematic review and meta-analysis

AA Malik, N Ahmed, M Shafiq, JA Elharake, E James… - Health Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Human behavior and more specifically behavioral insight-based approaches to
vaccine uptake have often been overlooked. While there have been a few narrative reviews …

Short message service (SMS) reminders for childhood immunisation in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

P Eze, LO Lawani, Y Acharya - BMJ Global Health, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Childhood vaccine delivery services in the low-and middle-income countries
(LMIC) are struggling to reach every child with lifesaving vaccines. Short message service …

Last-mile delivery increases vaccine uptake in Sierra Leone

NF Meriggi, M Voors, M Levine, V Ramakrishna… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Less than 30% of people in Africa received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine even 18 months
after vaccine development. Here, motivated by the observation that residents of remote, rural …

The limits of simple implementation intentions: Evidence from a field experiment on making plans to exercise

M Carrera, H Royer, M Stehr, J Sydnor… - Journal of health …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent large-scale randomized experiments find that helping people form implementation
intentions by asking when and where they plan to act increases one-time actions, such as …

Analyzing the usage of theories of change for routine immunization programs--a review of impact evaluations from LMICs

L Vadrevu, M Jain, SS Parsekar - Journal of Health, Population and …, 2024 - Springer
Background In this article we analyzed the extent of the usage of Theories of Change
(TOCs) and causal pathways in the evaluation of immunization programs to identify the …

[HTML][HTML] Mobile Phone Text Message Reminders to Improve Vaccination Uptake: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

GE Louw, ASJ Hohlfeld, R Kalan, ME Engel - Vaccines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Introduction: Mobile phone text message reminders (MPTMRs) have been implemented
globally to promote vaccination uptake and recall rates. This systematic review evaluated …

Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage

JC Hirani, M Wüst - Journal of Health Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting
Danish population data and three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we …

Business norm versus norm-nudge as a contract-enforcing mechanism: Evidence from a real marketplace

H Bhattacharya, S Dugar - European Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
We design a natural field experiment to examine the impacts of norm-based interventions in
enhancing honesty in a large decentralized marketplace fraught with contractual breaches …