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Community child health, public health, and epidemiology
Ethnic differences in the rates of BCG vaccination
  1. S A Deshpande
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr S A Deshpande
    Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Mytton Oak Road, Shrewsbury SY3 8XQ, UK; deshpandewhich.net

Abstract

An audit of the selective neonatal BCG immunisation programme showed that only 51% of eligible infants received the vaccination. Infants of Indian subcontinental origin (ISC) were significantly more likely to have been vaccinated than non-ISC infants (ISC 70% v non-ISC 29%). Greater awareness of the eligibility of non-ISC infants for BCG as well as simplification of the eligibility criteria are needed to help increase BCG vaccination rates.

  • tuberculosis
  • BCG
  • immunisation

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