Immunisation rates among children in Nuuk
The children immunisation programme in Greenland correlates to the one in Denmark with the addition of the Bacille Calmette–Guerin (BCG)-vaccine and the immunisation against Hepatitis B (HBV). The immunisation rate among children in Greenland has been and is currently unknown and this study aims to...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5804675 2023-05-15T16:27:28+02:00 Immunisation rates among children in Nuuk Albertsen, Nadja Fencker, Ivalu Meincke Noasen, Heidi Egede Pedersen, Michael Lynge 2018-02-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5804675/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29392992 https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2018.1426948 en eng Taylor & Francis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5804675/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29392992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2018.1426948 © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2018.1426948 2018-02-18T01:22:45Z The children immunisation programme in Greenland correlates to the one in Denmark with the addition of the Bacille Calmette–Guerin (BCG)-vaccine and the immunisation against Hepatitis B (HBV). The immunisation rate among children in Greenland has been and is currently unknown and this study aims to estimate the immunisation rates among children in Nuuk from 1 July 2015 until 30 June 2016. We did an observational cross-sectional study based on a statistical extraction identifying all children in Nuuk eligible for an immunization in the children immunisation programme from 1 July 2015 until 30 June 2016 and a review of their medical records. We found acceptable coverage rates among children younger than 12 months, but coverage rates lower than recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) among older children. Among children between 15 months and 4 years the coverage dropped as low as 33.9 %. Increased awareness of child immunisation rates is suggested including continuously monitoring and adjusting of the organisation of the immunisation programme. Text Greenland Nuuk PubMed Central (PMC) Calmette ENVELOPE(-67.150,-67.150,-68.050,-68.050) Greenland Nuuk ENVELOPE(-52.150,-52.150,68.717,68.717) International Journal of Circumpolar Health 77 1 1426948 |
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The children immunisation programme in Greenland correlates to the one in Denmark with the addition of the Bacille Calmette–Guerin (BCG)-vaccine and the immunisation against Hepatitis B (HBV). The immunisation rate among children in Greenland has been and is currently unknown and this study aims to estimate the immunisation rates among children in Nuuk from 1 July 2015 until 30 June 2016. We did an observational cross-sectional study based on a statistical extraction identifying all children in Nuuk eligible for an immunization in the children immunisation programme from 1 July 2015 until 30 June 2016 and a review of their medical records. We found acceptable coverage rates among children younger than 12 months, but coverage rates lower than recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) among older children. Among children between 15 months and 4 years the coverage dropped as low as 33.9 %. Increased awareness of child immunisation rates is suggested including continuously monitoring and adjusting of the organisation of the immunisation programme. |
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Immunisation rates among children in Nuuk |
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