The longitudinal study aims at investigating: (1) the psychosocial well-being and (2) the life course of participating children as well as perceived impact, benefits and challenges of the program.
The interview formats focused on the extent and type of participation by community stakeholders in the skilled delivery program, successes and challenges of the program from their perspectives.
Challenges of the program have included difficulty recruiting LVs due to lack of remuneration, storage and administration of vaccines due to extreme cold temperatures, switch to monovalent vaccine and decreased participation by dog-owners more interested in canine distemper vaccine, and cultural beliefs that vaccine may adversely affect agility of sled dogs.
A semi-structured open-ended questionnaire (see Additional file 1) was used to gather information regarding the participants' perception about graduate public health education in Nepal, with prompts for key issues such as the strengths and challenges of the programs, ideas about ways to solve the challenges and their views on collaborations, use of internet and e-learning.
The great challenge of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) is to reach and to keep high levels of vaccine coverage, which contributes first to disease control and later to disease elimination and eradication.
And that number could quadruple to more than $28 billion if a lawsuit filed last week challenging one of the program's remaining restrictions proves successful.
The background of the University of Canterbury Mechatronics program is examined, as are the challenges of integrating the program within the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
The evaluation results for levels 1, 2, and 3 showed that we successfully overcame the major inherent challenges of this program through elaborated collaboration.
The £1.8 billion figure supposedly took into account data retention by communications companies, training investigators, strategic work to cope with new and emerging technologies, and identification of (but not solutions for) the technical and operational challenges of the surveillance program.
Including local program staff as interviewers gave them an opportunity to speak with patients in-depth and to conceptualize strengths and challenges of the TB program.
