Deconstructing social resistance to pulse polio campaign in two North Indian districts.

Sanjay Chaturvedi · Rajib Dasgupta · VivekS Adhish · Kalyan K. Ganguly · Leena Sushant · S Srabasti +1 more

52 citations0/0 files storedPubMed

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Misinformation and Its Impacts Global Maternal and Child Health

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To gain an insight into the phenomenon of social resistance and rumors against pulse polio campaign. DESIGN: Qualitative, community-based investigation, mapping perceptions of various stakeholders through in-depth interviews (IDIs), focus group discussions (FGDs), non-formal interactions and observations. SETTING: Moradabad and JP Nagar districts of Uttar Pradesh. SUBJECTS: IDIs (providers 33, mothers 33, community leaders 10); FGDs (providers 4, mothers 8) and non-formal interactions (156) with community leaders, parents, businessmen, journalists (Hindi and Urdu media), mobilizers, vaccinators and supervisors. RESULTS: A distinct machination of social resistance and rumors against oral polio vaccine during supplementary immunization activities (SIA) was observed in some minority dominated areas. The pattern can be understood through a model that emerged through qualitative evidence. Inspite of all this, most parents in minority areas supported the SIAs. Only a few clusters from extremely marginalized sections continued to evade SIAs, with an endemic pattern. Through social osmosis, these rumors reached majority community as well and some parents were affected. However, in such cases, the resistance was sporadic and transient. CONCLUSION: While the programs focus was on microbiological issues, the obstacles to polio eradication lie in the endemicity of social (and/or cultural) resistance in some pockets, leading to clustering of perpetually unimmunized children - inspite of good coverage of SIAs at macro level. This may sustain low levels of wild poliovirus transmission, and there can be exceptions to the robustness of the pulse approach. A micro level involvement of volunteers from marginalized pockets of minorities might be able to minimize or eliminate this resistance.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 52 citations exist upstream.

References

2017The Discovery of Grounded Theory 2002Grounded Theory 2008Social Research Methodology: A Critical Introduction 1999Taking Sides in Social Research: Essays on Partisanship and Bias 2003The impact of the national polio immunization campaign on levels and equity in immunization coverage: evidence from rural North India

Cited by

2014Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: understanding the growing complexity governing immunization services in Kerala, India 2018Vaccine hesitancy among mobile pastoralists in Chad: a qualitative study 2015Threats to polio eradication in high-conflict areas in Pakistan and Nigeria: a polling study of caregivers of children younger than 5 years 2021Designing an SMS reminder intervention to improve vaccination uptake in Northern Nigeria: a qualitative study 2011How Can Measles Eradication Strengthen Health Care Systems?2011Outcomes of polio eradication activities in Uttar Pradesh, India: the Social Mobilization Network (SM Net) and Core Group Polio Project (CGPP)2016Eradication and Current Status of Poliomyelitis in Pakistan: Ground Realities

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.