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Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India
To our knowledge, the present study provides a first time assessment of the contributions of socioeconomic determinants of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the de...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22828353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2191-1991-1-11 |
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author | Lauridsen, Jørgen Pradhan, Jalandhar |
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description | To our knowledge, the present study provides a first time assessment of the contributions of socioeconomic determinants of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is applied to quantify the contributions from socio-demographic factors to inequality in immunization coverage. The results reveal that poor household economic status, mother's illiteracy, per capita state domestic product and proportion of illiterate at the state level is systematically related to 97% of predictable socioeconomic inequalities in full immunization coverage at the national level. These patterns of evidence suggest the need for immunization strategies targeted at different states and towards certain socioeconomic determinants as pointed out above in order to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in immunization coverage. JEL Classification: I10, I12 |
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spelling | pubmed-34977142012-11-19 Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India Lauridsen, Jørgen Pradhan, Jalandhar Health Econ Rev Research To our knowledge, the present study provides a first time assessment of the contributions of socioeconomic determinants of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is applied to quantify the contributions from socio-demographic factors to inequality in immunization coverage. The results reveal that poor household economic status, mother's illiteracy, per capita state domestic product and proportion of illiterate at the state level is systematically related to 97% of predictable socioeconomic inequalities in full immunization coverage at the national level. These patterns of evidence suggest the need for immunization strategies targeted at different states and towards certain socioeconomic determinants as pointed out above in order to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in immunization coverage. JEL Classification: I10, I12 Springer 2011-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3497714/ /pubmed/22828353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2191-1991-1-11 Text en Copyright ©2011 Lauridsen and Pradhan; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Lauridsen, Jørgen Pradhan, Jalandhar Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India |
title | Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India |
title_full | Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India |
title_fullStr | Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India |
title_full_unstemmed | Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India |
title_short | Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India |
title_sort | socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in india |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22828353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2191-1991-1-11 |
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