Project report
IMPLEMENTATION OF AN IMMUNISATION PROJECT FOR THE REFUGEES USING THE LOGIC MODEL
L G Goh, Chew-Fei Sow, Safurah Jaafar ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001A university-based immunisation project partnered with UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration to provide vaccines to refugee children under 18 years old across six learning centres. Over eighteen months, 1,116 children received complete doses of scheduled vaccines including Pentavalent, Hepatitis B, Tetanus-Diphtheria, and Mumps-Measles-Rubella. The project achieved over 80% immunisation coverage for most vaccines, except Pentavalent which fell below 50%. The team used a Logic Model framework to plan, implement, and evaluate the program, combining immunisation services with health education and monitoring.
Key points
- 1,116 refugee children received full immunisation over eighteen months across six centres
- Over 80% immunisation coverage achieved for most vaccines (Hepatitis B, Tetanus-Diphtheria, Mumps-Measles-Rubella)
- Pentavalent vaccine coverage remained below 50%
- Program integrated immunisation with health education, triaging, and data collection
- Logic Model framework proved useful for developing and evaluating community-based vaccination partnerships
Limitations
The document does not specify which country or region the project was implemented in, nor does it provide a comparison group or control condition to establish causality or effectiveness relative to standard services. The reasons for the low Pentavalent coverage (<50%) and longer-term follow-up data are not explained.
Abstract
Refugees worldwide have been a challenge to many countries. Threats of preventable immunisable diseases amongst children that disrupt the herd immunity have been a concern as many countries lack a structured national policy to administer full vaccines to these refugees. Full immunisation coverage not only protected the refugees but also safeguarded the children of the home country. We designed a collaborative university-based community service partnership with UNHCR and International-Organisation-for-Migration, implemented a practice-integrated immunisation service initiative with the local community. This paper described the implementation process of an immunisation project for the refugees using the evaluative Logic Model. This model diagrammatically shows the relationships between the program's objectives, program activities, process indicators, outcomes, and resources used. It applies to program planning, operation, evaluation and address questions for decision making. The aim was to provide refugees' children below 18-years the complete doses of the national scheduled immunisation. The immunisation was given in six refugees-learning-centres in a total of 31 visits. The workflow includes administering the immunisation, health education, triaging, data collection, and monitoring the children immunised. A total of 1116 children received full immunisation within a period of eighteen months. Vaccines given were Pentavalent, Hepatitis B, Tetanus-Diphtheria, and Mumps-Measles-Rubella. This project has achieved more than 80% immunisation coverage for all the vaccines except Pentavalent (<50%). The Logic Model is useful for developing, implementing, and evaluating knowledge co-production partnerships in the context of a community delivery system in this project.