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Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde

Print version ISSN 1679-4974On-line version ISSN 2237-9622

Abstract

MOURA, Ana Débora Assis et al. Rapid Monitoring of Vaccination to prevent measles in Ceará State, Brazil, 2015. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2018, vol.27, n.2, e2016380.  Epub May 30, 2018. ISSN 1679-4974.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/s1679-49742018000200017.

Objective:

to describe the results of Rapid Monitoring Vaccination monitoring conducted with the aim of interrupting the measles outbreak in the State of Ceará, Brazil, in 2015.

Methods:

this was a descriptive study using data taken from 52,216 vaccination cards of children aged from 6 months to less than 5 years and data on vaccination coverage, homogeneity, and reasons for non-vaccination extracted from the National Immunization Program Information System (SI-PNI).

Results:

vaccination coverage against measles reached 96.7% in Ceará; of the 21 Regional Health Offices in the State, four did not reach minimum coverage of 95% for the first dose, and two for the second dose; 836 children (1.6%) were not vaccinated and 1,388 vaccine doses were not used.

Conclusion:

Measles vaccination campaigns enabled the immunization coverage goal in the State of Ceará to be surpassed, despite the considerable number of unvaccinated children found.

Keywords : Surveillance; Monitoring; Measles; Immunization Coverage; Epidemiology, Descriptive.

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