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CHILD IMMUNISATION IN GHANA: THE EFFECTS OF FAMILY, LOCATION AND SOCIAL DISPARITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

ZOE MATTHEWS  and
IAN DIAMOND
ZOE MATTHEWS
Affiliation:
Department of Social Statistics, University of Southampton
IAN DIAMOND
Affiliation:
Department of Social Statistics, University of Southampton
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Abstract

The data from the Demographic and Health Survey conducted in Ghana in 1988 are used to identify determinants of immunisation uptake for children under 5 years. The logistic binomial analysis shows that socioeconomic factors are significant, especially women's education and region, and that the type of prenatal care received by the mother is also important. There is a strong familial correlation of vaccination behaviours, and there is also clustering of data within enumeration areas.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , July 1997 , pp. 327 - 343
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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