The missing metric

• Autores: Seth Berkley
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2955, 2014, pág. 26
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • By the World Health Organization's reckoning, eleven is the number of vaccines it takes to fully immunize a child. That's 11 key vaccines every child should have to protect them from a range of devastating diseases. But then people are only using three to measure immunization coverage. By doing so, they are not only giving themselves a skewed perspective of the state of global childhood immunization, but they are also in danger of thinking it's job done, when they still have far to go. Here, Berkley discusses why vaccinating the world's children saves millions of lives and the system of monitoring such efforts needs a revamp.