Table 3. Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV)1 by reason for visit, Chad and Malawi, 2015.
Child-based MOV | Dose-based MOV2 | ||||||||
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Total children with documented vaccination dates | No. of children with 1+ eligible doses due | Proportion of eligible children with 1+ MOV | No. of eligible doses among children with 1+ eligible doses due | Proportion of total eligible doses missed | |||||
n | n | % | n | % | n | n | % | ||
Chad | |||||||||
Vaccination visit | 194 | 164 | 85 | 75 | 46 | 314 | 106 | 34 | |
Non-vaccination visit | |||||||||
Medical consultation | 21 | 13 | 62 | 12 | 92 | 25 | 23 | 92 | |
Healthy child visit or check-up | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
Child is accompanying adult | 5 | 3 | 60 | 3 | 100 | 7 | 7 | 100 | |
Other | 7 | 6 | 86 | 5 | 83 | 9 | 8 | 89 | |
No reason reported | 11 | 9 | 82 | 4 | 44 | 17 | 5 | 29 | |
Non-vaccination visit total | 44 | 31 | 70 | 24 | 77 | 58 | 43 | 74 | |
Total | 238 | 195 | 82 | 99 | 51 | 372 | 149 | 40 | |
Malawi | |||||||||
Vaccination visit | 131 | 96 | 73 | 30 | 31 | 253 | 59 | 23 | |
Non-vaccination visit | |||||||||
Medical consultation | 223 | 83 | 37 | 80 | 96 | 165 | 159 | 96 | |
Healthy child visit or check-up | 53 | 13 | 25 | 13 | 100 | 20 | 19 | 95 | |
Child is accompanying adult | 39 | 18 | 46 | 16 | 89 | 37 | 34 | 92 | |
Other | 28 | 11 | 39 | 8 | 73 | 20 | 13 | 65 | |
No reason reported | 9 | 4 | 44 | 2 | 50 | 11 | 5 | 45 | |
Non-vaccination visit total | 352 | 129 | 37 | 119 | 92 | 253 | 230 | 91 | |
Total | 483 | 225 | 47 | 149 | 66 | 506 | 289 | 57 |
1Missed opportunity for vaccination (MOV): contact with health services by a child (or adult) who is eligible for vaccination (unvaccinated, partially vaccinated, or not up-to-date, and free of contraindications to vaccination), which does not result in the individual receiving all the vaccine doses for which he or she is eligible [9,10]
2MOV based on the total number of vaccine doses children are eligible for and administered per type of visit