Cultural and Contextual Determinants

How it works

Risks & contraindications

Highlighted claims

• Home delivery and delivery by traditional birth attendants commonly delayed newborn vaccination. — Determinants of untimely receipt and non-receipt of routine childhood immunisation in Ebonyi state based on the Adapted Omale INDEPT FORCIS Framework and recommendations for policy and practice: a qualitative study
• Cultural practices such as waiting for the umbilical cord to fall off or circumcision wounds to heal delayed birth doses and later vaccinations. — Determinants of untimely receipt and non-receipt of routine childhood immunisation in Ebonyi state based on the Adapted Omale INDEPT FORCIS Framework and recommendations for policy and practice: a qualitative study
• Rumours that vaccines were bad or killed children created fear and delayed attendance. — Determinants of untimely receipt and non-receipt of routine childhood immunisation in Ebonyi state based on the Adapted Omale INDEPT FORCIS Framework and recommendations for policy and practice: a qualitative study
• Market days competed with weekly immunisation clinics because many mothers depended on buying and selling for income and food. — Determinants of untimely receipt and non-receipt of routine childhood immunisation in Ebonyi state based on the Adapted Omale INDEPT FORCIS Framework and recommendations for policy and practice: a qualitative study
• Distrust of vaccines was linked to broader concerns about expired or unsafe commodities in the Nigerian health system. — Determinants of untimely receipt and non-receipt of routine childhood immunisation in Ebonyi state based on the Adapted Omale INDEPT FORCIS Framework and recommendations for policy and practice: a qualitative study