Glossary
- Barrier to immunization: Any challenge or reason that prevents children from getting vaccinated. These can be physical (like distance to clinics), social (like community beliefs), or practical (like cost).
- Civil Society Organisations (CSOs): Non-governmental groups that represent community interests, like local charities or advocacy groups.
- Demand Strategy: A plan to increase the number of people getting vaccinated by addressing the reasons why they currently don’t.
- Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS): Large-scale household surveys that collect health data.
- Drop-out rate: The percentage of children who start but don’t complete their full vaccination series.
- DTP1/DTP3: First and third doses of the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine. Often used to measure vaccination progress.
- Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI): The government programme responsible for providing and delivering vaccines to the community.
- Gender barriers: Challenges to vaccination that affect people differently based on their gender (for example, women needing male relatives’ permission to visit clinics).
- Hard-to-reach areas: Places that are difficult to access due to geography, conflict, or poor infrastructure.
- Human-Centred Design (HCD): An approach to solving problems by focusing on people’s needs and experiences to create solutions that work for their context. It often involves including the people you are designing for as part of the process.
- High-risk communities: Groups with low vaccination rates or facing significant barriers to vaccination.
- Immunization coverage: The percentage of people in a population who have received specific vaccines. Low immunization coverage means that there are many people who are not fully vaccinated.
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices surveys (KAP surveys): Research that measures what people know, think, and do regarding health topics. It’s often quantitative data.
- Localisation: Localisation of content means that the content fits the cultural, linguistic, and practical needs of the people you are working with.
- Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS): Household surveys that collect data on children’s and women’s well-being.
- Mobile communities: Groups that move frequently, like nomadic populations or migrant workers.
- Norms: These are the typical unwritten rules of behaviour in a group or society e.g. ways that people are expected to normally behave in a cultural context.
- Persona: A fictional description of a typical person from your target community, including their challenges and needs. It’s a representation to bring to life what a typical person might feel, need, want or do in a situation.
- Priority communities: Specific groups identified as needing focused attention in the vaccination strategy.
- Social and Behaviour Change (SBC): Efforts to influence people’s health-related actions and decisions.
- Service provider: Healthcare workers or organisations that provide vaccination services.
- Technical working groups: Teams of experts who provide guidance on specific aspects of vaccination programmes.
- Under-immunized Children: who have received some, but not all, recommended vaccines.
- Zero-dose children: Children who haven’t received any vaccines through routine immunization services.
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