PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEMS REGARDING IMMUNIZATON, AND ADDRESSING COMMUNITY BARRIERS TO VACCINATION: A QUALITATIVE STUDY FROM LINCOLN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MALAYSIA
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Background:
Child immunization is a cornerstone of public health, designed to protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases and reduce child mortality rates.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the Public Health Problems Regarding Immunization, And Addressing Community Barriers to Vaccination.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study setting was the Lincoln University College Malaysia. Data was collected from the EPI department of 21 UC’S of Bahawalpur. The study completed approximately 18 months. The study targeted population of study was the CEO Health and WHO Representative interview regarding immunization experience to the different EPI Centers of 21UC’S of District Bahawalpur Pakistan. The data was analyzed by the Nvivo software.
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two key informants: a World Health Organization (WHO) Representative and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Health. With informed consent, all interviews were taken in Urdu and subsequently transcribed verbatim in English. In instances where Urdu idioms or expressions were used, bilingual researchers translated these into English, ensuring semantic accuracy and cultural equivalence. To maintain data integrity, transcripts were cross-verified with the original audio recordings for accuracy.An inductive approach was employed for coding and thematic analysis.
RESULTS: The deficiencies in the infrastructure, such as the poor maintenance of the cold chain, the irregular training of the personnel and the lack of mechanisms for the sending of messages of the result, have come to light in this investigation. All of these obstacles give birth to the disease and its outbreaks, thus increasing the mortality of children under the age of under 5. Suggestions include making people more conscious of these programmes by way of targeted training sessions, using mobile vaccination units, updating the health infrastructures, and engaging the community to help solve problems of misinformation and of the logistics involved.
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SAMIA IQBAL
SAMIA IQBAL PHD Scholar (PHD IN HEALTH SCIENCES SPECIALIZED IN PUBLIC HEALTH) Faculty of medicine, Lincoln University College Malaysia
Suriyakla Perumal Chandran
DR.SURIYAKLA PERUMAL CHANDRAN Associate Professor BIOCHEMISTRY AND GENETICS UNIT DEPUTY DEAN MD-PRE CLINICAL, FACULTY OF MEDICINE,LINCOLN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MALAYSIA
Muhammad Asif
Associate Professor, Department Of Public Health, Times Institute Multan