TY - JOUR
T1 - Embedding implementation research to strengthen efforts towards improving primary health care in resource limited settings
AU - Tilahun, Binyam
AU - Zelalem, Meseret
AU - Mekonnen, Zeleke Abebaw
AU - Sheikh, Kabir
AU - Shahabuddin, Asm
AU - Sharkey, Alyssa
AU - Feletto, Marta
N1 - Funding Information:
In 2018, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research within the World Health Organization in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund and with financial support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, began collaborating with the University of Gondar and the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health on an embedded implementation research initiative to address concerns of real-world decision makers in the immunization program, and to support the attempt to mitigate implementation or system barriers. These barriers often reflect local contextual issues and have a direct impact on the performance of immunization policy and practice. In line with this, implementation research has a crucial role in leveraging local, and context-specific knowledge, to identify and explain the reasons behind, and to find and test strategies to overcome them. Furthermore, taking implementation research to scale is essential to support the delivery of the immunization program and strengthen the efforts to accelerate PHC (10).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Immunization reaches more people than any other health service and it is a vital component of primary health care (PHC) (1,2). The Immunization Agenda 2030 emphasizes building strong national immunization programs integrated into primary health care services as the basis for achieving high vaccination coverage (2). In Ethiopia, immunization services are the backbone of PHC and are delivered in all public health facilities across the country (1). Even though the national EPI target is to reach a coverage of 90%(1), achieving and maintaining high immunization coverage is challenged by multifaceted demand and supply side implementation barriers (3–5). These barriers are related to community engagement, immunization service delivery, supply chain management, and surveillance and data management of the immunization program (5).
AB - Immunization reaches more people than any other health service and it is a vital component of primary health care (PHC) (1,2). The Immunization Agenda 2030 emphasizes building strong national immunization programs integrated into primary health care services as the basis for achieving high vaccination coverage (2). In Ethiopia, immunization services are the backbone of PHC and are delivered in all public health facilities across the country (1). Even though the national EPI target is to reach a coverage of 90%(1), achieving and maintaining high immunization coverage is challenged by multifaceted demand and supply side implementation barriers (3–5). These barriers are related to community engagement, immunization service delivery, supply chain management, and surveillance and data management of the immunization program (5).
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M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85122911391
SN - 1021-6790
VL - 35
JO - Ethiopian Journal of Health Development
JF - Ethiopian Journal of Health Development
IS - 3
M1 - 35
ER -