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Rebecca Larson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Improving school Immunization rates may be as basic as record reconciliation and policy enforcement: a report from a rural Colorado public health/school district initiative.
Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP, 2015Co-Authors: Heather M. Gilmartin, Rebecca LarsonAbstract:The aim of this report was to assess the coverage rate of required Immunizations for kindergarten-12 students in the Eagle County School District and to create a process for annual, district-wide Immunization assessments to inform Immunization campaigns. All kindergarten-12 student records were reviewed, and Immunization rates during the 2012-2014 years were compiled. At baseline, only 2096 (34%) were in compliance with the Colorado School Immunization Law. After reconciliation of records and instituting a recall system in year 1 and enforcement of the Colorado School Immunization Law suspension rule in year 2, a total of 5862 (98.8%; P < .001) students were in compliance. Immunization rates for Eagle County School District students were unknown due to the lack of a process to assess a compliance rate and the lack of reconciliation of records. Although initially time-intensive, the project has impacted the community through the creation of a sustainable process of collecting and reporting student Immunization records through a centralized state Immunization registry.
Daniel B. Fishbein - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A middle school Immunization Law rapidly and substantially increases Immunization coverage among adolescents.
American journal of public health, 2004Co-Authors: Francisco Averhoff, Leslie S. Linton, K. Michael Peddecord, Christine C. Edwards, Wendy Wang, Daniel B. FishbeinAbstract:Objectives. This study assessed the effectiveness of a middle school vaccination requirement for raising second-dose measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and hepatitis B vaccine coverage among adolescents.Methods. Random-digit-dialed telephone surveys were conducted before (1998) and after (1999) the implementation of a vaccination requirement for entry into the seventh grade in San Diego, Calif.Results. Vaccination coverage was higher among children subject to the vaccination requirement (seventh-grade students; 60%) than among fifth- and sixth-grade students 1 year before the requirement (13%, P < .001), and 8th- through 12th-grade students not subject to the requirement (27%, P < .0001).Conclusions. Middle school–entry vaccination requirements can rapidly and substantially raise vaccination coverage among students subject to the Law.
Heather M. Gilmartin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Improving school Immunization rates may be as basic as record reconciliation and policy enforcement: a report from a rural Colorado public health/school district initiative.
Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP, 2015Co-Authors: Heather M. Gilmartin, Rebecca LarsonAbstract:The aim of this report was to assess the coverage rate of required Immunizations for kindergarten-12 students in the Eagle County School District and to create a process for annual, district-wide Immunization assessments to inform Immunization campaigns. All kindergarten-12 student records were reviewed, and Immunization rates during the 2012-2014 years were compiled. At baseline, only 2096 (34%) were in compliance with the Colorado School Immunization Law. After reconciliation of records and instituting a recall system in year 1 and enforcement of the Colorado School Immunization Law suspension rule in year 2, a total of 5862 (98.8%; P < .001) students were in compliance. Immunization rates for Eagle County School District students were unknown due to the lack of a process to assess a compliance rate and the lack of reconciliation of records. Although initially time-intensive, the project has impacted the community through the creation of a sustainable process of collecting and reporting student Immunization records through a centralized state Immunization registry.
Haruka Nakada - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Compensation programs after withdrawal of the recommendation for HPV vaccine in Japan
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2015Co-Authors: Koichiro Yuji, Haruka NakadaAbstract:HPV vaccinations were recommended with the backing of a Japanese government subsidy program in 2010, and were included in the National Immunization Program in April 2013. However, the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare withdrew the recommendation for the HPV vaccination in June 2013. We investigated HPV vaccine injury compensation programs for both the national and local governments. Approximately 3.38 million girls were vaccinated, and 2,584 complained of health problems. The majority of these received the vaccine shot as a non-routine vaccination. In total, 98 people developed health problems and applied for assistance from 2011 to 2014, but no cases have been processed since October 2014. Several local governments are providing their own compensation program for cases of vaccine adverse reactions, but the number is extremely low (16 of 1,741 municipalities and 1 of 47 prefectures). The local governments that are providing compensation are largely those where HPV vaccine victim support groups are prominent. The confusion regarding the national program for HPV vaccine injury was caused by the discrepancy between the compensation programs for those vaccinated under the Immunization Law and for those who received voluntary vaccinations. The establishment of a new compensation program might be key to finding a lasting resolution.
Nobuhiko Okabe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Current issues with the Immunization program in Japan: can we fill the "vaccine gap"?
Vaccine, 2012Co-Authors: Akihiko Saitoh, Nobuhiko OkabeAbstract:The "vaccine gap" is a term which has been used in Japan to indicate that the current Immunization program is behind compared to the programs in other developed countries. The current national Immunization program (NIP) which was established under the Japanese Immunization Law includes only six vaccines (eight targeted diseases), and the rest of available vaccines have been categorized as voluntary vaccines, which require out-of-pocket expense in order for the patients to receive them. This has led the vaccination rates for the voluntary vaccines remaining low, and the incidence of the target diseases remaining high. In addition, there are a few domestic rules that exist for Immunizations including (1) subcutaneous injection is the standard method of vaccination, (2) the thigh is not considered to be the common site of vaccination in infants, and (3) the intervals of administration of inactivated and live vaccines are strictly determined by Law. Along with the "vaccine gap" and the domestic rules, some movements to improve our current NIP are underway; including increased calls to change the NIP from civilians and professionals, the establishment of a group by the representatives from 13 medical professional societies asking the government to consider the Immunization policy a "national policy" and seeking the establishment of a new and reorganized national Immunization technical advisory group (NITAG). In addition, the Vaccination Subcommittee of Health Sciences Council was formed in the government to reform the current Immunization Law and NIP, which established a new national program for three voluntary vaccines funded by a temporary budget. We hope these new movements will fill the "vaccine gap" and that the NITAG will help ensure that vaccine policy becomes a national policy, and will provide necessary vaccinations without out-of-pocket expense to protect children in Japan from vaccine preventable diseases.