Development and Feasibility Testing of an Artificially Intelligent Chatbot to Answer Immunization-related Queries of Caregivers in Pakistan: A Mixed-methods Study comminit.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from comminit.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
"Gender equity in immunizations is not an isolated concept but deeply intertwined with females empowerment, agency, and autonomy." Pakistan is among the countries where gender inequity in immunisations is a growing concern.
"Making immunization inequities visible through geospatial analysis is the first step to ensure resources are allocated optimally." Digital tools such as high-resolution mapping are gaining increasing recognition for their potential to improve vaccination coverage in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
"Reducing MOVs caused by complexity and changes in EPI schedules can improve immunization coverage, timeliness, and equity." Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOVs) - that is, when children interact with the health system but fail to receive age-eligible vaccines - are a problem in many low- and middle-income countries, leading to underimmuni
Siddiqi, Khan, Chandir); IRD Pakistan (
Ali, Munir, Shah, Chandir); Harvard Medical School (
Khan, Chandir) There is.a programmatic and research gap regarding strategies to improve immunization coverage and timeliness in low-literacy communities through cost-effective, sustainable solutions that.focus on transforming caregivers from passive to active recipients of immunization services. Evidence indicates that suboptimal immunisation coverage and timeliness is attributable not only to supply-side deficiencies, but also to demand-side problems such as caregiver complacency, forgetfulness, and unawareness of required number and timing of doses. Globally, a widely used method to communicate the vaccination schedule to caregivers is the paper-based immunisation card. Like immunisation cards, which require literacy, reminder-recall (R/R) interventions requiring mobile phone ownership fail to penetrate the lowest socioeconomic strata, thus widening the global immunisation equity gap