Transport Networks and Inequities in Vaccination: Remoteness Shapes Measles Vaccine Coverage and Prospects for Elimination across Africa

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Metcalf, C. Jessica E.; Tatem, Andrew J.; Bjørnstad, Ottar N.; Lessler, Justin; O'Reilly, K.; Takahashi, Saki; Cutts, Felicity T.; & Grenfell, Bryan T. (2015). Transport Networks and Inequities in Vaccination: Remoteness Shapes Measles Vaccine Coverage and Prospects for Elimination across Africa. Epidemiology & Infection, 143(7), 1457-1466. PMCID: PMC4411642

Abstract

Measles vaccination is estimated to have averted 13·8 million deaths between 2000 and 2012. Persisting heterogeneity in coverage is a major contributor to continued measles mortality, and a barrier to measles elimination and introduction of rubella-containing vaccine. Our objective is to identify determinants of inequities in coverage, and how vaccine delivery must change to achieve elimination goals, which is a focus of the WHO Decade of Vaccines. We combined estimates of travel time to the nearest urban centre (

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0950268814001988

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Journal Article

Year Published

2015

Journal Title

Epidemiology & Infection

Author(s)

Metcalf, C. Jessica E.
Tatem, Andrew J.
Bjørnstad, Ottar N.
Lessler, Justin
O'Reilly, K.
Takahashi, Saki
Cutts, Felicity T.
Grenfell, Bryan T.

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PMC4411642

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Lessler - 0000-0002-9741-8109