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  • Title: Risk factors for incomplete vaccination in children less than 18 months of age attending the nurseries of day-care centres in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    Author: Konstantyner T, Taddei JA, Rodrigues LC.
    Journal: Vaccine; 2011 Nov 21; 29(50):9298-302. PubMed ID: 22015393.
    Abstract:
    To estimate the proportion of children in day-care centres with incomplete vaccination and to identify associated risk factors, we conducted a cross-sectional study among 258 children less than 18 months of age attending public and philanthropic day-care centres in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Interviews, blood collection and anthropometry were performed. Unconditional logistic regression was adjusted for incomplete vaccination risk factors. 10.9% of children had incomplete vaccination. Children who were born prematurely (OR=4.27; p=0.004), or were malnourished (OR=4.99; p=0.049), or lived in inadequate housing (OR=2.88; p=0.039), or whose mothers had had poor prenatal care (OR=4.98; p=0.040) were more likely to have incomplete vaccination. Opportunities are being missed to identify children with incomplete vaccination; strategies to enhance vaccination coverage should pay special attention to the needs of families living in inadequate housing; and health promotion actions in primary health facilities and day-care centres should be performed as concomitant activities.
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