Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Contributors; 1 Saving children's lives: perspectives on immunisation; 2 Concepts and approaches; 3 The global politics of health: actors and initiatives; 4 National commitments and global objectives; 5 Rights and obligations in national health governance; 6 'Immunisation is good for your children': local immunisation practices in India and Malawi; 7 Have means become ends? Getting children's health back in focus; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Summary
Vaccination programmes now represent a major part of the effort devoted to improving the health of children in developing countries. These donor-funded programmes tend to be global in scope and focus on worldwide goals and targets such as 'polio eradication', and the Millennium Development Goals. Health policy makers at the national level are expected to implement these programmes in a standard manner and report progress according to a few standard indicators. Pressures and incentives to achieve the targets set are then transmitted down to the community level health worker who actually meets th
