Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

A Study of the Knowledge and Attitude towards Pulsepolio in Urban areas of South India

1UG Student, Department of Community Medicine, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai-73

2Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai-73

*Corresponding Author: Thatiparthi Stephen, Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai-73, e-mail: docsteveo@hotmail.com

Online published on 27 March, 2020.

Abstract

Polio infection transmission has been hindered in many pieces of the world with the exception of couple of foci in ten nations situated in South Asia and Central/Western Africa2. The Government of India propelled the beat polio inoculation (PPI) program on a nationwide premise in 1995. The expression “beat” portrays the concurrent, mass organization of oral polio antibody (OPV) on a solitary day to all kids matured underneath 5 years3. PPI comprises of inoculation of kids at fixed stalls on two national vaccination days (NID), isolated by about a month and a half, throughout the winter season. The primary point of PPI is to intrude on the transmission of wild polio infection by presenting kids to the antibody virus3. However, 5–6% of kids were being missed in the PPI. In this manner, during 1999–2000, notwithstanding stall inoculation, a house-to house search of missed youngsters was embraced to immunize them over the 2–3 days following each NID.

Keywords

Pulsepolio, beat polio inoculation (PPI), oral polio antibody (OPV)