Improving immunization coverage and equity - technical resources
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| Resource | Measure the Behavioural and Social Drivers of Vaccination (BeSD) |
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| Purpose | This guidebook supports the use of the tools on understanding and addressing behavioural and social drivers (BeSD) of vaccine uptake. It guides programmes, partners and researchers to understand the reasons for low uptake, using globally field tested and validated tools for childhood vaccination and COVID-19 vaccination. It helps to reduce coverage inequities by gathering and using data to systematically design, implement and evaluate tailored interventions. |
| Content | The guide includes tools and guidance for understanding behavioural and social drivers of vaccination, as well as guidance on how to gather, analyse and use the resuting data. Furthermore, this document includes recommendations on interventions to increase vaccine uptake, as well as suggestions for related monitoring and evaluation using BeSD indicators. |
| Expected outcomes | Programmes and partners will have local data (based on use of globally field-tested and validated tools) to guide planning, implemention and evaluation of tailored interventions. |
| Use | •To be used if report available at the country level. •Does not require user input. This is an assessment that would have been conducted before. Might not be available in all countries, and shouldn't be conducted just for the purposes of informing a criterion for decision-making (e.g. criterion for CAPACITI decision-support tool), as it is resource intensive. |
| Strengths | Tools and guidance have been developed through an intensive process of global field-field testing and validation. This tool is useful for assessing childhood vaccination and COVID-19 vaccination. |
| Contraints/Limitations | Further research is needed on effective interventions for specific settings, including the context-specific factors that contribute. |
| Why use it | This guidance should be used to better understand reasons for low uptake, and to gather related local quantitative and qualitative data. The findings may offer added insights to improve access, availability, and affordability of services, as well as to increase uptake in areas with high dropouts or low coverage. |
| Who should use it | It is intended for immunization programme managers, research advisors and others who are collecting, analysing and using data for immunization programme planning and evaluation. |
| Example criteria this resource could address | The data might be used to provide insights into demand side factors that could be barriers to uptake, and thus be used in the decision-making process by examining whether the considered products/strategies might address any of those barriers or their use might be impacted by the barriers. The findings may offer added insights to understanding access, availability, and affordability of services, as well as uptake in areas with high dropouts or low coverage. |
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| Link to access the resource | /en/component/content/article/measure-the-behavioural-and-social-drivers-of-vaccination-besd?catid=660&Itemid=101 |