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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Health Economics
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1514635
This article is part of the Research Topic Identifying, Characterizing, and Reaching Zero-dose Children in Fragile Settings Around the Globe View all 4 articles
Socioeconomic inequalities in immunisation of 12-23 months old children in Malawi: A decomposition analysis
Provisionally accepted- University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, Malawi
Our work is suitable for the Frontiers in Public Health Journal and the Health Economics Specialty since it investigates immunisation inequalities and its determinants and aligns to the journal's main objectives and interests. Child immunisation efforts are central to uplifting public health anywhere in the world. In 2007, Zere et al. (2007) published a paper that found inequalities in immunisation in Malawi (https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-7-78). Due to the introduction of additional vaccines over the years and recent outbreaks in Malawi, our paper updates the status of socioeconomic inequalities in immunisation in Malawi and singles out socioeconomic factors that are key to addressing the inequalities. We believe that these findings will be of interest to the readers of your journal.
Keywords: Bridget Naphiyo: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, methodology, Writing -original draft, Writing -review & editing. Gowokani Chijere Chirwa: Methodology, supervision, Writing -review & editing. Jacob Mazalale: Supervision, Writing -review & editing Child immunisation
Received: 21 Oct 2024; Accepted: 26 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Naphiyo, Chijere Chirwa and Mazalale. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Bridget Naphiyo, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, Malawi
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