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Vaccination coverage among young children has remained high and stable for most vaccines, although disparities persist. The National Immunization Survey–Child identified no decline overall in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has decreased uptake of pediatric preventive care, including immunizations. This study estimates the prevalence of missed pediatric routine medical visits and vaccinations over...
This webpage shows infographics regarding missing vaccinations during COVID-19 in America
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Background
The COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders have caused an unprecedented decrease in the administration of routinely recommended vaccines. However, the impact of this decrease on...
Primary care providers play key roles in ensuring that children and the community receive vaccines on time. Sometimes, this role includes the task of reassuring parents who are vaccine hesitant that...
Recent reports suggest that routine childhood immunization coverage might have decreased during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (1,2). To assess the capacity of pediatric health...
A decrease in the number of vaccine doses administered in NYC was detected beginning the week of March 8, 2020, 1 week after the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in NYC. Those numbers declined...
On March 13, 2020, the president of the United States declared a national emergency in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (1). With reports of laboratory-confirmed cases in...
As a consequence of the social distancing measures that have been implemented in many parts of the United States, medical visits to primary care physicians have dropped as some parents and patients...
Vaccine temperature control failures represent a significant public and private healthcare cost. Vaccines damaged by excessive heat or freezing lose their effectiveness, putting public health at...
This is a case study of a specific hospital in Queens, New York that has implemented a tremendous amount of innovate approaches to Healthcare Waste Management , taking into account environmental...
Conflicting reports have emerged about the effectiveness of the live attenuated influenza vaccine. The live attenuated influenza vaccine appears to protect particularly poorly against currently...
The Next Generation of Every Child By Two, has prepared this second annual State of the ImmUnion
report to examine how strong our defenses truly are against vaccine-preventable diseases and what we...
Objective: The objective was to investigate how state level strategies in South Carolina could maximize HPV vaccine uptake. Design: An environmental scan identified barriers, facilitators, and...
Rates of vaccine-preventable diseases have increased in the United States in recent years, largely due to parental refusals of recommended childhood immunizations. Empirical studies have demonstrated...
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE: WST), a global leader in innovative solutions for injectable drug administration, today shared the results of a study highlighting the benefits of West\'s...
BACKGROUND: Rates of invasive pneumococcal disease have declined since widespread introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) in the United States. We evaluated the impact of immunization...
Timeliness of Receipt of Early Childhood Vaccinations Among Children of Immigrants — Minnesota, 2016
Receiving recommended childhood vaccinations on schedule is the best way to prevent the occurrence and spread of vaccine-preventable diseases (1). Vaccination coverage among children aged 19–35...
The recent inauguration of President Trump carries with it many public health policy implications. During the election, President Trump, like all political candidates, made policy commitments to...
The synchronized introduction of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and the switch from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) has constituted an effort without...
Vaccine refusal has been a recurring story in the media for well over a decade. Though there is scant evidence that refusal is genuinely increasing in the population, multiple studies have...
Importance: Routine childhood vaccination is declining in some regions of the United States due to vaccine hesitancy, which risks the resurgence of many infectious diseases with public health and...
April 2012 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
September 2012 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
January 2013 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
April 2013 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
August 2013 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
January 2014 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
April 2014 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
August 2014 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
December 2014 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
April 2015 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association.
August 2015: SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association.
April 2016 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association.
August 2016 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
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The National Center for Health Statistics recently released the data brief from its 2015 National Health Interview Survey. Key findings from the survey data include:
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OBJECTIVES:
Accurate data on immunization coverage levels are essential to public health program planning. Reliability of coverage estimates derived from immunization information systems (IISs)...
OBJECTIVE:
We compared the quality of data reported to New York City\'s immunization information system, the Citywide Immunization Registry (CIR), through its real-time Health Level 7 (HL7) Web...
Background: West Nile virus (WNV) is the leading cause of domestically-acquired arboviral disease in the United States. Several WNV vaccines are in various stages of development. We estimate the...
PROBLEM/CONDITION:
Overall, the prevalence of illness attributable to vaccine-preventable diseases is greater among adults than among children. Adults are recommended to receive vaccinations...
Recent manufacturing problems resulted in a shortage of the only U.S.-licensed yellow fever vaccine. This shortage is expected to lead to a complete depletion of yellow fever vaccine available for...
On July 11, 2016, state and local health departments in Kentucky were notified of a case of obstetric tetanus in an unvaccinated woman. Obstetric tetanus, which occurs during pregnancy or within 6...
BACKGROUND: Vaccination against pertussis during pregnancy is recommended to protect newborns, yet there is limited information about the effectiveness of maternal tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria...
The role of pharmacists in immunisation and vaccination varies across the world; in some countries pharmacists are primarily involved in ensuring the safe supply and ...
Background: Limited data are available describing the post-licensure safety of meningococcal vaccines, including Menveo®. We reviewed reports of adverse events (AEs) to the Vaccine Adverse Event...
From smallpox to chickenpox, we have the ability to protect Americans of all ages from deadly infectious diseases. It is estimated that the Vaccines for Children program will prevent 22 million...
On August 16, 2015, a case of parotitis in a resident of the Rockaways neighborhood of Queens, New York City (NYC), was reported to the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) as a...
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BACKGROUND: Meningococcal conjugate vaccination is recommended in the United States. This study evaluates the safety of quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine in a cohort aged 11 to 21 years....
Financial barriers to adult vaccination are poorly understood. Our objectives were to assess among general internists (GIM) and family physicians (FP) shortly after Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio). Since then, wild poliovirus (WPV) cases have declined by >99.9%, from an estimated 350,000 cases of polio each year to...
OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of exchange of immunization information between an immunization information system (IIS) and an electronic health record on up-to-date rates, overimmunization, and...
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study examines the demographic representativeness of the County of
San Diego Body Mass Index (BMI) Surveillance System to determine if
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Objectives: To determine the lifetime social value of using the guideline-recommended vaccines for children born in the United States in 2009.
Study Design: This study utilized an economic model...
The following report displays data and figures on the introduction status of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), rotavirus vaccine, and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) both globally and in 73 Gavi...
Sustained high coverage with recommended vaccinations among children has kept many vaccine-preventable diseases at low levels in the United States (1). To assess coverage with vaccinations...
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Objective
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ACKGROUND: Concerns about vaccine safety have led some parents to decline recommended vaccination of their children, leading to the resurgence of diseases. Reassurance of vaccine safety remains...
Population-level coverage for immunization against many vaccine-preventable diseases remains below optimal rates in the U.S. The Community Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended several...
Vaccine refusal rates have increased in recent years, highlighting the need for effective risk communication, especially over social media. Fuzzy-trace theory predicts that individuals encode...
The American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA), in partnership with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
ntroduction of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) into the childhood immunization schedule was associated with substantial reductions in invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and...
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papillomavirus (HPV) is a contemporary public health concern
because of its association with cervical cancer. Despite evidence
about HPV vaccination benefits, debate surrounds whether or not...
BACKGROUND: Clinical decision support (CDS), including computerized reminders for providers and patients, can improve health outcomes. CDS promoting influenza vaccination, delivered directly to...
As part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) (1), viral hepatitis case-reports are received electronically from U.S....
Childhood vaccination data are made available at a school level in some U.S. states. These data can be geocoded and may be considered as having a high spatial resolution. However, a school only...
In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, John Glasser and colleagues report the results of a spatially-stratified model to better understand the dynamics of disease outbreaks and the link with vaccine...
OBJECTIVE: This qualitative study aimed to identify doctors\' and nurses\' perceptions of patient-, provider-, and system-level factors associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine completion...
OBJECTIVE: Assessing local health departments\' (LHDs\') informatics capacities is important, especially within the context of broader, systems-level health reform. We assessed a nationally...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of a client-centered behavioral intervention (Brief Negotiated Interviewing) on mothers\' human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine knowledge and vaccination initiation for...
Despite the availability of HPV prophylactic vaccines, uptake has been suboptimal in the US. In the state of Hawaii, HPV vaccine coverage has decreased among females and remains low among males aged...
School nurses are at the intersection of the healthcare and school communities, thus, they can be considered opinion leaders in providing health advice - including information about the human...
The efficacy of immunization mandates for childcare or school entry is a long-standing controversy. The United States (US) adopted school entry immunization mandates in the 1800s, while most...
Vaccination coverage survey - Publication abstract:
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate potential age-appropriate up-to-date (UTD) vaccination coverage achievable in preschool children if missing vaccinations...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication abstract:
BACKGROUND:
This study characterizes the healthcare visits at which children receive vaccinations, including the number of these visits and the...
Immunization registries offer the opportunity for
epidemiologists, immunization coordinators, assessment
specialists, and immunization coalitions to address all
aspects of communicable disease...
A substantial proportion of the US measles cases in the era after elimination were intentionally unvaccinated. The phenomenon of vaccine refusal was associated with an increased risk for measles...
In 2004 an Institute of Medicine report warned of vaccine shortages, raising concerns about disease outbreaks. More than a decade later, we looked for progress in reducing vaccine shortages. We...
During the 1990s, the United States switched from combined diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, whole-cell pertussis (DTwP) vaccines to combined acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccines because of safety...
Most surveyed parents believe vaccines are important for child health and rate disease prevention higher than number of injections entailed. Providers underestimate the importance of some vaccines to...
Of the 72 case patients with pertussis, 12 (16.67%) were hospitalized, and 34 (47.22%) were undervaccinated for DTaP vaccine by the date of pertussis diagnosis. Of the 288 matched controls, 64...
December 2015 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association.
The individual, societal, and economic benefits of disease prevention resulting from childhood and adult immunization programs in the United States are without question. A report from the Centers for...