Drawing on first hand original research in india and malawi carried out by the contributors as well as existing literature protecting the worlds children immunisation policies and practices discusses that there is little or no scope allowed for the effects of variance in the way health systems work the difficulties and tensions faced by health workers or differences in the way people think about childhood illnesses that reflect cultural differences within global immunisation policy. Cover contents abbreviations contributors 1 saving childrens 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 . Protecting the worlds children immunisation policies and practice roalkvam sidsel mcneill desmond blume stuart 9780199666447 books amazonca. Drawing on first hand original research in india and malawi carried out by the contributors as well as existing literature protecting the worlds children immunisation policies and practices discusses that there is little or no scope allowed for the effects of variance in the way health systems work the difficulties and tensions faced by health workers or differences in the way people think about childhood illnesses that reflect cultural differences within global immunisation policy. Vaccination programmes now represent a major part of the effort devoted to improving the health of children in developing countries drawing on original research in india and malawi carried out by the contributors as well as existing literature this book argues that the need to show progress can create distortions and lead to the production of misleading data and an unwillingness to report