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Abstract Immunizations are widely recognized as a major tool for achieving public health successes. It is the most cost-effective preventive health intervention presently known in modern medicine, achieving high immunization coverage, tended to decline the morbidity and mortality rates of vaccine-preventable diseases. EPI in Egypt has achieved several successes in controlling vaccine preventable diseases, including strong national vaccination coverage of over 90%, through an increase of vaccine coverage and continuous surveillance leading to reduced illness, disability and death from vaccine-preventable diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles and polio. The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge and practice among healthcare providers regarding immunizations in primary health care settings and identify the determinants for levels of knowledge and practices among health care providers in these settings. Our cross-sectional study was conducted in all primary health care facilities in Shubra khit (One urban and 16 rural primary health care facility). Our results showed that: Age ranged between 21 - 59 years, 56.7% of workers were younger than 40 years and 43.3% were 40 years or older. The Majority of healthcare (97.3%) providers were females and Most of those (87.3%) were in the rural units. The majority of healthcare workers (87.3%) had work experience of less than 10 years. Most of the workers (85.4%) were of the nursing team. About one fourth of the whole healthcare providers (24.7%) worked in. |