In rural Tanzania, dads’ education matters a lot for whether their baby gets vaccines on time — but in cities, it doesn’t seem to make much difference.

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Determinants of delayed or incomplete diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination in parallel urban and rural birth cohorts of 30,956 infants in Tanzania

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2019 Feb 26

In rural Tanzania, dads’ education matters more for whether kids get their vaccines on time than in cities, and the study proves it by showing that kids with uneducated dads were much more likely to miss vaccines in the countryside.

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Determinants of delayed or incomplete diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination in parallel urban and rural birth cohorts of 30,956 infants in Tanzania

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DOI: 10.1186/s12879-019-3828-3

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