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Training materials
Immunization in practice - A practical guide for health staff
This practical guide contains eight modules targeted at district and health facility staff. It intends to meet the demands to improve immunization services so as to reach more infants in a sustainable way, building upon the experiences of polio eradication. It includes materials adapted from polio on planning, monitoring and use of data to improve the service, that can be used at any level. Immunization in practice is both a resource and training guide that can be used in workshops and supportive supervision visits. It is useful both for staff who are learning to provide immunization services and for those who have been doing so for some time. Its format is easy to follow. Extensive use is made of tables, figures, sample forms, reports, maps, charts and practical tips to assist staff in planning, implementing and monitoring immunization services.
It is available in English and French as a book or CD-ROM.
Support materials for training of health workers and/or supportive supervision visits
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Planning training activities
pdf, 94kb
Provides information on how to plan training for health workers. -
Questions database
xls, 164kb
Contains questions on different immunization components, that can be used before, during or after a course. -
Case studies
pdf, 1.09Mb
Contains several case study questions that can be included during the training of health workers. -
Skills practice
pdf, 91kb
Contains exercises for skills practice (shake test, injection techniques, waste disposal etc.) -
Job aids
pdf, 2.82Mb
Contains brief "how to do" instructions that can be used to perform the skill exercises mentioned above, or kept at the health facility for quick reference.
Increasing immunization coverage at the health facility level
The aim of this guide is to help health workers to use their own data to identify problems and causes of low immunization coverage, and to plan solutions to increase immunization coverage. These guidelines can be modified to suit the local context and needs and can be used at various levels of the health system in any country.
Available in English and Russian.
AFRO Mid Level Management modules (MLM)
The following link contains a series of modules (in English and French) developed by the WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) to train national and provincial staff. The modules have been used in several intercountry and in country training courses.
Immunological basis for immunization
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Link to Immunological basis for immunization
Eight modules which may be used as reference material in training curricula.
Indentifying and overcoming obstacles to increased immunization coverage
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Link to modules
These modules are designed to assist health workers in identifying and overcoming the obstacles to increasing immunization coverage in their health catchment area. This course is primarily for health workers of a health facility such as a health centre. However, health worker supervisors will also find the modules in this course useful in their work.
Training-related documents
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Link to training-related documents
Some of these documents have been developed as individual modules for specific training purposes, and do not form part of any of the established Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) training series.
USEFUL LINKS
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WHO document centre
The WHO document centre lists documents produced and ditributed by the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB).