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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2019 Jun 22;37(31):4281–4290. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.06.041

Table 3.

Prevalence of missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV)1 among surveyed children, by reason for visit, Timor Leste, 2016.

On arrival for this health visit During this health visit After this health visit
Children with documented vaccination dates Children with 1 + eligible doses due Children vaccinated with all eligible doses during visit2 Children with 1 + MOV2
n n % n % n %
Vaccination visit 164 151 92 103 68 48 32
Non-vaccination visit 122 48 39 15 31 33 69
 Medical consultation 49 22 45 5 23 17 77
 Healthy child visit or check-up 41 11 27 2 18 9 82
 Child is accompanying adult 3 3 100 0 0 3 100
 Hospitalization 19 6 32 5 83 1 17
 Other 6 5 83 2 40 3 60
 No reason reported 4 1 25 1 100 0 0
Total 286 199 70 118 59 81 41
1

Missed opportunity for vaccination (MOV): contact with health services by a child (or adult) who is eligible for vaccination (unvaccinated, partially vaccinated/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 [13–15].

2

Among the subset of children with documented vaccination dates and eligible for one or more vaccine doses (n = 199).