Immunization

Low Immunization Rates: Is the Process the Problem?

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 9th, 2000

Mothers may be deterred from bringing their infants to be vaccinated if they feel that health professionals are unsympathetic to them and the pain inflicted on their children, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Researchers from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, Scotland, conducted in-depth interviews of 23 mothers whose children were between the ages of 12 and 24 months in two areas of Dublin, Ireland.

The mothers said that they preferred to have their children vaccinated at their family practice rather than in an immunization clinic. Their preference was...

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