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April 27, 2012 | New Public Health Post
This week is National Infant Immunization Week, an annual observance to promote vaccinations in kids two and younger. Last September the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that childhood immunization rates for vaccines routinely re ...
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Children in low-income families living far from an immunization provider can miss basic vaccinations because parents lack their own transportation. This study examined how the availability of immunization providers affected vaccination rates among low-income children in Washington, D.C.
January 3, 2008 | Journal Article
This research reports on an effort to increase vaccination rates in children, particularly high-risk children, across numerous hospitals, clinics and community-based pediatric practices.
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
In 2000, a heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) was licensed and recommended for all children aged 2 to 23 months. This study compares the rates of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in young infants before and after the addition of PC ...
October 1, 2004 | Journal Article
This project evaluated the impact of the 2002–2003 recommendation to "encourage when feasible" the influenza vaccine for healthy children 6 to 23 months of age. A cross-sectional study of children who were 6 to 59 months of age and presented to a la ...
July 1, 2007 | Journal Article
The current article presented findings from a study that explored how a CD-ROM based tutorial from the Penn State Immunization Project (PSIP) impacted physicians' understanding of parent resistance to childhood immunizations. Participants in the stu ...
September 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This article describes efforts to use information on influenza burden and vaccine efficacy to estimate how influenza vaccine recommendations might impact children's influenza-related hospitalizations and outpatient visits. Researchers reviewed studi ...
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The registry launched an intensive recruitment campaign involving the majority of immunization department staff, with the goal of having all enrolled by end of 1998.
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Immunization registries don't constitute a large or profitable market for private vendors of registry software and in 1998, only a dozen or so registry software vendors served all the registries in the country.
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Some health agencies develop their own immunization registry system, while others purchase software from vendors. Neither choice is necessarily the right one - both can be fraught with difficulties, delays, and cost overruns.