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. 2023 Aug 21;11(8):1389. doi: 10.3390/vaccines11081389

Table 1.

Mechanisms impacting measles CFR with related hypothesized indicators.

Mechanisms Indicators
Health system access and care-seeking behaviors
  • Educational attainment

  • Percent living in urban settings

  • Surrounding conflict

  • Time to care seeking

  • Travel time to major city or settlement

  • Travel time to nearest health care facility

Health system quality
  • Access to intensive care unit

  • Health expenditure per capita

  • Level of health care available

  • Under-five mortality rate

Measles control and epidemiology
  • First-dose coverage of measles-containing vaccine (MCV1)

  • Maternal antibody dynamics

  • Maternal measles vaccination coverage

  • Second-dose coverage of measles-containing vaccine (MCV2)

  • Vaccine coverage equity

  • Vaccination efficacy

  • Vaccination schedule

  • Vitamin A treatment

Nutritional status
  • Stunting prevalence

  • Underweight prevalence

  • Vitamin A deficiency prevalence

  • Vitamin A supplementation

  • Wasting prevalence

Risk of secondary infection
  • Ambient air pollution

  • Antibiotic use for measles-related pneumonia

  • Average household size

  • De-worming frequency

  • Diarrheal disease prevalence

  • HIV prevalence

  • HIV treatment/antiretroviral therapy (ART) prevalence

  • Malaria prevalence

  • Lower respiratory infection prevalence

  • Oral rehydration solution for measles-related diarrhea

  • Pneumococcal conjugate vaccination coverage

  • Population density

  • Pre-term birth prevalence

  • Total fertility rate