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A study of the effectiveness of visual media in the promotion of child immunisation in Kakamega District, Kenya

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posted on 2018-02-20, 10:55 authored by Sophia I. Kaane
The health of children is very important in Kenya, given that more than half of its population is under twenty years of age. Despite continued efforts, Kenya has not achieved the Universal Child Immunisation (UCI) target of full immunisation for 75 per cent of all children. It is argued here that two of the factors contributing to this situation are the lack of information and of effective media of communication. [Continues.]

Funding

Great Britain, Overseas Development Agency. British Council.

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  • Science

Department

  • Information Science

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© Sophia Inziani Kaane

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

Publication date

1995

Notes

A doctoral thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

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