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Abstract
The present study was undertaken on 500 infants from 8 months
24 months of age to evaluate vaccination programme in an
Egyptian village. It was found that 57.2% were males and 42.8%
females, denoting that males were recieving more medical
than females. 46% of infants recieved vaccinations in a
regular manner, 41. 2% in an irregular manner and 12.8% did not
recieve any kind of vacc i nat ions. Of the total number, 34.6 %
contracted infectious diseases , 12.7% of them were f. vac., 1.7%
vac. and 85.6% not vac. against the contracted diseases. A
respected number of cases infected at an early age before
completion of primary vaccinations and raise the importance of
changing the schedule- of vaccination programme to be given as
possible as directed by W.H.O ..
In studying the causes of irregular or missed vaccinations,
was found that 49.6% were due to busy parents, 46.7% due to
insufficient vaccines, 45.9% due to delayed regestration of
infants, 26.7% due to ignorance, 24.4% recurrent illness of
infants, 21.5% negl igance, 19.3% overcroudness dur ing sess ions I
due to limited days of vaccinations, 5.9% due to faulty
and lastly 4.4% of parents give insufficient hospital
~rsonels as a reason for irregular vaccinations.
86 infants
percentage 0 f
( 17.2% were found to be
those infants contracted
malnourished. High
infectious diseases