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Trusted Gossip - Full Immunization up 11.8%
Strategy researched An intervention involving: key “seeds” in the community and their “trusted gossip”; small incentives (mobile credit); and phone reminders Impact achieved Country of study India Research methodology RCT - 7 districts; 2,359 villages Journal International Initiative for Impact Evaluation Report; 2020 Journal paper title and link Evaluating the impact of interventions to improve full immunisation rates in Haryana, India Excerpt from Main Results "We find an 11.8 per cent increase in the number of children who are fully immunised. Looking at the results separately by vaccine, we see that this reflects an increase in number for each of the five vaccines in the EPI package, but particularly for measles-1, where we see a 14.2 per cent increase..." |