Differences in risk factors for partial and no immunisation in the first year of life: prospective cohort study

Abstract

Objective To compare demographic, social, maternal, and infant related factors associated with partial immunisation and no immunisation in the first year of life in the United Kingdom. Design Prospective cohort study.

Infant vaccination coverage in 2005 and predictive factors for complete or valid vaccination in Flanders, Belgium: an EPI-survey

“…Our finding that full-time working mothers were significantly associated with complete and valid vaccination is consistent with findings in the UK [8]. Possibly a higher educational level, a higher income or better access to information could explain this.…”

“…Having a single parent, a high number of siblings or having older siblings were not found to be associated to vaccination in this study, although they were in other studies [8,11,13,14,16,18,28]. The degree of urbanisation was not predictive either, which is reassuring because a lower coverage in urban regions could elicit a risk of transmission for some diseases.…”

“…This survey showed an important increase in infant vaccine coverage at 18-24 months age in immunised infants at 9 months-of-age for the recommended vaccine schedule as a whole [8].…”

“…In other studies, including a previous study in Belgium [3,6,12,14], low parental educational level was significantly associated with incomplete vaccination and maternal age has also been recognized as a factor influencing vaccination [6,8,12,13].…”

“…However, the birth cohort of which children were recruited for this study largely received the 2003 schedule with three monovalent doses of HBV. A number of characteristics that have been found to be related to vaccination coverage in industrial countries have been taken into consideration in this 2005 survey, such as parental education, ethnicity, age, marital and working situation, birth order of the child, medical problems, side effects of vaccination, vaccine provider and having a vaccination card [3,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”