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The economic value of increasing geospatial access to tetanus toxoid immunization in Mozambique

Authored by:

Haidari LA, Brown ST, Constenla D et al.

Full Citation:

Haidari LA, Brown ST, Constenla D et al. 2016. The economic value of increasing geospatial access to tetanus toxoid immunization in Mozambique. Vaccine. 34.

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Additional key concepts from this publication:

Maternal immunization offers an opportunity to protect the mother and fetus, but also passes this protection on to the infant after birth.

Key Evidence: An study using GIS to quantify the percent of pregnant women in Mozambique without access to tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccine at varying distances from health facilities estimated that if women cannot travel more than 5 km to a TT immunization site there will be almost 18,000 neonatal tetanus cases each year that could be prevented, costing the country more than US$362 million in treatment costs and lost productivity. Covering 99% of women with TT will currently require people to travel up to 35 km to obtain an immunization.

From the VoICE Editors: GIS, a geospatial information system, is a computer system capable of capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographically referenced information.

Those living farther from health facilities are less likely to be immunized, or to be immunized on time, than children living closer to health facilities.

From the VoICE Editors: GIS, a geospatial information system, is a computer system capable of capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographically referenced information.