Sentences with phrase «increasing vaccination rates»

Another approach to increasing vaccination rates is to «normalize» HPV vaccines, he said.

«The authors» identification of factors that influence the likelihood of a woman being vaccinated should lead to actions for increasing vaccination rates, thus serving women's health in a significant way,» Ellis said.

«Prescheduled appointments are a simple intervention that clinics can use to increase vaccination rates.»

A Rutgers study has found that doctors who take a proactive stance and schedule flu shots for patients can dramatically increase vaccination rates.

These respondents were also more likely to support stricter public policies like banning under - vaccinated children from schools to increase vaccination rates.

Path of least resistance To increase vaccination rates, law - makers want to make it harder to get an exemption than it is to get a vaccination.

Painless, easy - to - use microneedle patches could one day replace flu injections and help increase vaccination rates around the world, Science News reports.

The research team also documents reasons why patients were not vaccinated and recommends ways to increase the vaccination rate.

Studies have shown that social norms can in fact influence immunizations, few interventions examined whether they increase vaccination rates.

Making vaccinations as convenient as possible can further increase vaccination rates, Betsch says.

A new report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest identifies the most effective ways to increase vaccination rates... More

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Dr. Don Colbert, a «divine health» expert who has appeared with Copeland in several broadcasts, then said the autism rate among children has increased with the number of childhood vaccinations.

Further, although vaccination rates have risen since 2008, the findings underscore the need for increased physician recommendation and vaccine assistance programs.

If a shift in public health policy were to result in an increase in male vaccinations, experts say, at the very least rates of females» HPV - associated cancers would decrease as a result of fewer infections acquired from men.

Such efforts may help increase HPV vaccination rates and decrease cervical cancer rates in Appalachian Kentucky.

«We also must remember that the majority of cervical cancers occur in women who have not had any recent screening and that increasing HPV vaccination rates will also be important to reducing cervical cancer rates in the future,» she added.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

This idea is backed by studies linking the existence of personal - belief exemptions, and the ease of getting them, to reduced vaccination rates and increased incidence of disease.

Tdap vaccination rates among patients seen and who had not yet received one increased from roughly 16 to 47 percent within U-M family medicine clinics that used the system while other clinics saw vaccine rates increase from 14 to 30 percent.

Vaccination with the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine - 7 [PCV7 — a vaccine that covers 7 strains (serotypes) of Streptococcus pneumoniae] is linked to overall decreases in the rate of serious infections caused by this bacterium, such as pneumonia and meningitis, referred to as invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD)-RSB-, but small increases in IPD caused by serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae not covered by the vaccine (referred to as non-vaccine type IPD), according to a study published in PLOS Medicine this week.

The authors say: «The most important public health implication of our analysis was that decreases in overall IPD rates in children — the group targeted for PCV7 vaccination — occurred quickly and were sustained after vaccine introduction despite increases in [non-vaccine serotype] rates.»

It is not known if the occurrence of these conditions after HPV vaccination merely reflects the background rates in girls and young women or represents a true increased risk, according to background information in the article.

Vaccinations have long been ruled out, but this year studies of influences in the womb have tentatively linked mothers» antidepressant use, high blood pressure, and diabetes to increased autism rates.

But with the cessation of regular vaccinations, infection rates from a related poxvirus are increasing in central Africa

June 13, 2016 Radiation and vaccination can magnify effects of immunotherapy By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers from the University of Chicago, working with mice, were able to increase the response rate for these new immunotherapy agents.

«Yet, despite increased public education and advocacy efforts, vaccination rates against HPV remain unacceptably low.»

Increasing HPV vaccination rates «goes back to the importance of health care provider's recommending the vaccine to parents and patients,» he said.

The goal was to increase rabies vaccination rates in response to increased dog bite incidents.

While international dog and cat vaccination guidelines warn that we should decrease companion animal vaccination, i.e. «we should aim to reduce the «vaccine load» on individual animals in order to minimize the potential for adverse reactions to vaccine products» [18], vaccination of humans is increasing at a startling rate.