Table 1 General features of the interventions
Publication Year | First author | Location | Study type | Intervention description | Intervention type | Urban / rural | Campaign vs. routine | Delivery platforma |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Andersson | Pakistan (Balochistan province) | Cluster randomized controlled trial | Community discussion groups on vaccine benefits, costs, and coverage | Demand generation | Not stated | Routine | Mobile |
2010 | Banerjee | India (Rajasthan state) | Cluster randomized controlled trial | Monthly immunization camps conducted by mobile team in villages | Delivery approach | Rural | Routine | Mobile |
2007 | Barham | Mexico (7 states) | Cluster randomized controlled trial | Cash transfers conditional on children attending preventative health visits and mothers attending health education talks | Demand generation / Cash transfers | Both | Routine | Both |
Nicaragua | Â | Cash transfers conditional on children attending preventative health visits and mothers attending health education talks | Demand generation / Cash transfers | Not stated | Routine | Both | ||
2017 | Byberg | Guinea-Bissau (9 regions) | Cluster randomized controlled trial | Giving measles vaccination to all unvaccinated children 9–36 months regardless of number of children present | Delivery approach | Rural | Campaign | Mobile |
2014 | Carnell | Ethiopia (Amhara, Oromia and SNNP regions) | Pre-post design | I: Strengthen health systems (planning, HMIS, logistics, health care financing) II: Improve health workers’ skills (through training and supervision in immunization, ENA and IMCI) III: Introduce community health promoters | Health systems strengthening | Rural | Routine | Fixed |
2003 | Drain | Madagascar (Antananarivo and Fianarantsoa provinces) | Randomized controlled trial | Clinic staff used auto-disable syringes on all days or on non-routine immunization days | Novel technology | Both | Both | Fixed |
2014 | Hayford | Bangladesh (Dhaka) | Pre-post design | I: Extended hours at satellite clinics; II: training for vaccinators; III: clinic screening tool to identify children with missed doses; IIII: volunteer community group to assist at satellite clinics | Delivery approach | Urban | Campaign | Mobile |
2013 | Khan | Bangladesh (Mirpur area of Dhaka) | Cluster randomized controlled trial | Oral cholera vaccination for high-risk, urban population aged one and older | Delivery approach | Urban | Campaign | Both |
2005 | Levin | Indonesia (West Nusa Tenggara province) | Pre-post design | Delivering birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine using prefilled injection device | Novel technology | Not stated | Routine | Mobile |
2011 | Owais | Pakistan (Karachi) | Randomized controlled trial | Home-based vaccine promotion education by community health workers using pictoral cards | Demand generation | Urban | Routine | Mobile |
2007 | Pandey | India (Uttar Pradesh state) | Cluster randomized controlled trial | 4–6 meetings in each village to disseminate information on entitled health and education services | Demand generation | Rural | Routine | Mobile |
2018 | Powell-Jackson | India (Uttar Pradesh state) | Randomized controlled trial | Health information messaging targeting mothers of unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated children through home visits | Demand generation | Rural | Routine | Fixed |
2009 | Rainey | India (Uttar Pradesh state) | Pre-post design | Identifying and vaccinating newborns with OPV within 72 h of birth | Delivery approach | Both | Campaign | Both |
2006 | Soeung | Cambodia | Cross-sectional design | Developing and implementing immunization microplans that are supported by performance based agreements and a secure system of financing | Health systems strengthening | Rural | Routine | Fixed |