Evaluation of Primary Vaccination Coverage in Rural Area of Maharashtra, India by 30 Cluster Sampling Technique

Infectious diseases constitutes a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. Immunization is a cost effective and easy way of child survival. Despite of all efforts being done by the government for 100% vaccination coverage there are some areas especially In rural and tribal areas where vaccination coverage is still low, even though immunization facilities are offered free of cost by government. That's why here we tried to evaluate what is the exact level of immunization coverage in rural area of Solapur district of Maharashtra.

What is the level of Primary immunization coverage in children in the Rural area of Solapur?

To find out the primary Immunization coverage in children (12 to 23 months) at rural area of Solapur

Community based cross sectional study.

Rural Health Training Center Vairag field practice area of Department of Community Medicine, of Dr. V. M. Govt. Medical College Solapur.

children in age groups 12–23 months.

WHO recommended Cluster Sampling Technique, 218 from 30 clusters.

done on Microsoft excel, Percentage and Proportion, Chi square Test were applied whenever necessary.

A total of 218 children aged 12–23 months were included in the study. It was found that 95.87%, of the children were fully immunized against all the six vaccine-preventable diseases and 4.13% children's were partially immunized. The proportion of fully immunized children was marginally higher in males (97.27%) than in females (94.24%). Using cluster samplings, the percentage of completely immunized, partially immunized and unimmunized children were 95.87%, 4.13% and 0%, respectively.