Abstract
Immunization is one of the most cost-effective interventions
of Public Health in reducing global child morbidity,
mortality and lifetime disabilities. Despite immunization
programme being in place for decades and significant
improvement in immunization services and administrative
coverage,cases of communicable diseases are still occurring
and epidemics of Vaccine Preventable Disease
(VPDs)continue to take place. This is a clear indication that
certain factors are being overlooked in implementation.This
is descriptive study in whichcausal design has been used to
assess relationship between Human Resource (HR)
Factorsincluding workload, employee motivation and
supportive supervision. It also looks into factors related to
infrastructure; vaccine availability, vaccine storage, vaccine
transportation andadministration factorssuch as public
awareness, policy and trainings byExpanded Programme on
Immunization (EPI) implementation in District Okara of
Punjab Province.The data was collected from 271 employees
of Department of Primary & Secondary Healthcare, Punjab
involved in EPI Okara.Likert scale five-point option
questionnaire was employed for data collection of targeted
individuals. Responses of all respondents have been entered
in SPSS and analyzed statistically.Results revealed that HR,
Infrastructure and Administration factors have significant
association with EPI implementation. Infrastructure can
bringabout a major change in EPI implementation with beta value of 0.438 comparatively with significance level of
0.000.Thus, with effective tacklingof these factorswe can
have motivated employees, better immunization planning
and a sense of enhanced ownership among community
members whichcan help us achieve the goals of EPI
Programme - to immunize every child to reduce morbidity,
mortality and disability.
Shahzad Amir , Ain ul Momina Sonia Omer, Sulsabeel Iftikhar , Rizwan Ullah Siddiqui , Sadia Jamal. (2020) Analysis of Potential Factors Influencing EPI Implementation in Punjab, Pakistan, Journal of Pakistan Vision, Volume 21, Issue 1.
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