Rural-urban disparities in missed opportunities for vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country decomposition analyses.
Abdu A AdamuOlalekan Abdulrahman UthmanEvanson Zondani SambalaDuduzile Edith NdwandweAlison B WiyehTawa O OlukadeGhose BishwajitOlumuyiwa OmonaiyeJean-Marie Okwo-BeleCharles Shey WiysongePublished in: Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics (2019)
Variation exists in the level of missed opportunities for vaccination between rural and urban areas, with widespread pro-rural inequalities across Africa. Although several factors account for these rural-urban disparities in various countries, household wealth was the most common.