The effect of mass vaccination campaigns against polio on the utilization of routine immunization services: A regression discontinuity design.

CONCLUSIONS: RDD constitutes a promising tool to assess the effects of mass vaccination campaigns on RI services. It could be tested in additional settings, using larger and more precise datasets. It could also be extended to measure the effects of other disease-specific interventions on the functioning of health systems, in particular those that occur at a discrete point in time and/or include age-related eligibility criteria. PMID: 27269060 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27269060?dopt=Abstract

Source: Vaccine - June 2, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Helleringer S, Asuming PO, Abdelwahab J Tags: Vaccine Source Type: research