Cochrane Review Applicability discussion

Option 1: Essay Title: Cochrane review applicability discussion: Structured applicability of the Cochrane review by Oyo-Ita and colleagues on ‘Interventions for improving coverage of childhood immunisation in low- and middle-income countries’ to [insert name of the country you have chosen]. The review is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD008145.pub3/full Or Option 2: Essay Title: Cochrane review applicability discussion: Structured applicability of the Cochrane review by Saeterdal and colleagues on ’Interventions aimed at communities to inform and/or educate about early childhood vaccination’ to [insert name of the country you have chosen]. The review is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010232.pub2/full and also on the LMS. INSTRUCTIONS The perspective you will take as the author of the essay and the country you choose: Imagine you are working in a health department in a country of your choosing. In your work, you have been asked to consider the applicability of the findings of a Cochrane review for your health system. The background for this request is that a new policy is being developed to improve vaccination rates and the head of the Vaccination Section needs information about the effectiveness of various interventions in order to decide where investment should happen. It is not your job to make a recommendation – only to consider the applicability of the interventions to your context, health system and society. First, select which country you are in. It is sensible to choose a country and health system you know well or where you can get reliable information about vaccination. This can be from grey literature, that is, in government reports or articles which provide data on what is happening in your country. Tips: If you are doing Option 1 essay, it may be easier to choose a low or middle income country. If you are doing Option 2, it is fine to choose a low and middle income country but it is also possible to choose a high income country. In other words, it is a much harder essay to write if you choose a high income country for Option 1. You have to choose a large country India, you may find it more sensible to choose a state or region, because discussing country-wide applicability issues would be challenging. If you chose Option 1, you may only want to select some of the interventions types included in this review because discussing the applicability of all the different types would be too complicated.