Study of Mothers\' Knowledge about Vaccination of 0-2 Year\'s Pediatrics in Health Centers of Health Ministry- Tehran

Abstract

Extract Surprisingly, vaccination has well controlled Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Poliomyelitis and Measles in fifty last years. Also tetanus and Tuberculosis in pediatric has gone, but vaccination as one of the most effective methods in prevention is not accessible to all the children in the world. Based on the Mahler Theories, about 80 million children were born in under development countries yearly but all of them aren't vaccinated. There are lots of reasons with special importance in different countries. Reasons such as: no enough accessible services for mothers to vaccinate their children in appropriate ages and lack of professional personal for management and planning which resulted in not using vaccination programs to reduce the mortality

Keywords

• vaccination; prevention; knowledge