DOI: 10.36106/gjra/1300531 ISSN:

IMMUNIZATION COVERAGE AND ITS DETERMINANTS AMONG CHILDREN AGED 12-23 MONTHS IN URBAN SLUMS OF GUWAHATI CITY- A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

Waferah Zeba, Kumaril Goswami, Jhankar Hazarika, Jutika Ojah, Achyut Chandra Baishya
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Immunization is a process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is 1 often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation. In 1976, Dr Edward Jenner created the world's rst successful vaccine against small pox. Subsequently, vaccine against typhoid, rabies, diphtheria, inuenza, yellow fever, pertussis, polio, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella were discovered. In 1974 the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI, now the Essential Programme on Immunization) is established by WHO to develop immunization programmes throughout the world. The rst diseases targeted by the EPI are diphtheria, 2 measles, polio, tetanus, tuberculosis and whooping cough.

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