Bulletin of the World Health Organization

National Immunization Day: a strategy to monitor health and nutrition indicators

Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos, Rômulo Paes-Sousa, Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Junior, César Gomes Victora

Volume 86, Number 6, June 2008, 474-479

Table 1. Description and scope of HNDs, Brazil 2005–2006

Population, region Date or period Sampled states : states in region Sampledmunicipalities : municipalities in the region No. 0–5 year old children sampled 0–5 year old population for which inference was possible
Semi-arid, north-east region 20 August 2005 9 : 9 277 : 1133 16 239 2 300 000
Rural settlements, north-east region August–September 2005 10 : 10 40 : 1877 1 305 230 000
Quilombolas, national August–September 2006 22 : 27 60 : 5564 2 723 90 000
Amazonas state, north region 27 August 2006 1 : 7 43 : 62 4 280 454 000