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Routine protections losing ground
Childhood vaccination rates have slipped in several countries, and antimicrobial resistance advances quietly in the background. Both depend on sustained collective behaviour.
Why it is hard to measure
- Preventable diseases return when routine coverage falls below the level needed to hold them back.
- Falling coverage is usually a mix of access, convenience, and confidence, and those need different responses.
- Antimicrobial resistance threatens procedures that currently depend on antibiotics working.
- Coverage figures show the shortfall without distinguishing its causes.
Questions only a conversation can ask
“What nearly stopped you from making the last appointment — and what got you there anyway?”
“Before a health decision like this one, who do you talk it over with, and what did they say last time?”
Where SamSurveyor fits
A form asking why someone did not attend gives you a category. A conversation can ask what would have made it easier, which is the part a programme can act on.
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