Sentences with phrase «own vaccination policies»

Legal loopholes Each US state sets its own vaccination policies, and most will not generally allow children to attend public school unless they have been vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough); hepatitis B; the Haemophilus influenzae bacterium; measles, mumps and rubella; polio; and varicella (chicken pox).

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

The current influenza (flu) vaccination policy in England and Wales should be expanded to target 5 to 16 - year - olds in order to further reduce the number of deaths from flu, according to a study by UK researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

An analysis of vaccination policy by officials from PAHO and the Sabin Vaccine Institute agrees that cholera vaccination can be one component of an elimination plan.

«Expanding flu vaccination policies to include children could reduce infections and mortality.»

«We as a global community have to do a much better job of integrating polio and routine immunization,» says Zulfiqar Bhutta, an immunization expert at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, and a member of the WHO committee that issued the new vaccination policy.

Most are located along the front line of last year's outbreaks, suggesting that the epidemic is spreading into new territory despite France's compulsory vaccination policy.

Many health care workers favour condition - of - service influenza vaccination policies.

Condition - of - service policies that apply to unionized employees must be consistent with collective labour agreements, and vaccination policies should allow exemptions for religious beliefs and practices.

Employers planning to implement mandatory influenza vaccination policies for health care workers need to understand the implications, according to an analysis published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Hospitals can greatly improve their flu vaccination rate among health care workers by using a mandatory employee vaccination policy, according to a Henry Ford Health System study.

Physical activity, a comprehensive vaccination policy and good nutrition all help to prevent debilitating infections.

Here are our hospital recommendations for adult animals who skip an annual vaccine (though other hospitals are likely to have different recommendations as vaccination policy tends to be very individualized to the practice):

Learn about our Vaccination Policy.

It is also a good idea to ask about the vaccination policy for all pets, as well as the policy on socialization for the pets.

San Antonio ACS shelter director, Gary Hendel, implemented the new vaccination policy last week and by doing so, has created a new era of life saving.

We have a strict vaccination policy, but this insures that everyone comes in healthy and happy and they leave healthy and happy.

We welcome any questions about our boarding facilities and vaccination policies.

3 AFA ferret (M. putorius furo) vaccination policy.

If your dog visits any of these types of facilities, check on their vaccination policy.

Since the mid-1990s most veterinary teaching hospitals have restructured their vaccination policies to increase the duration of some vaccines from one year to three years based on independent studies rather than on the studies used by the USDA for vaccine licensing.

Hospitals are likely to have different recommendations as vaccination policy tends to be individualized to the practice and its geographic location.

Whenever implementing a mandatory vaccination policy, employers should be prepared for a challenge.

Not exact matches

Labour is distancing itself from a proposal by the party's policy review chief Jon Cruddas that benefit claimants could be forced to give their children the MMR vaccination - or face losing their payouts.

«The results of this study can be used by physicians, public - health providers and policy - makers to address public and parental concerns about HPV vaccination and promiscuity.»

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.

In the study, published in the journal Behavioral Science and Policy, Rutgers researchers report that patients are three times more likely to get vaccinations when their physicians make appointments than when they are invited to make the appointments themselves.

Study co-author and recent UBC sociology graduate Nicholas Fitz said the findings could help better inform public policies that aim to boost child vaccination rates.

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

These figures are alarming policy - makers, who fear that vaccination rates may fall below the threshold where even unvaccinated people are protected.

Nurses can also advocate for policies aimed at making universal vaccinations available for adolescents and adults.

What needs to happen, the author recommends, is that there be more laws that mandate vaccinations, manure management and general animal welfare in urban and suburban settings similar to policies and regulations imposed on commercial chicken ranches.

Scientists there plan to develop vaccines for a range of pathogens — from bioterror threats to sexually transmitted diseases - and ponder policy issues, such as the growing public resistance to vaccination.

The forum brought together many of the world's top disease ecologists, wildlife biologists, immunologists, virologists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, wildlife veterinarians and pathologists, and policy experts to explore whether it would be appropriate and feasible to develop approaches to canine distemper vaccination to protect at - risk wild carnivore populations.

These findings should play a key role in any policies adapted by state or national governments that relate to childhood vaccination,» the article concludes.

Lacking an effective animal vaccination program, in 2006 China began enforcing a one - dog per family policy and in a June crackdown one city culled 37,000 dogs in hopes of quelling an outbreak.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

However, as most — but not all — chickenpox cases are mild, whereas shingles causes a painful rash and can lead to complications such as prolonged pain (postherpetic neuralgia), policy makers in other countries have hesitated to introduce childhood vaccination.

At the policy level, school and daycare vaccine requirements and more stringent criteria for vaccination exemptions have been very effective.

Allison Weinmann, M.D., a Henry Ford Hospital Infectious Diseases physician and study co-author, says it was only after the health system went to the mandatory policy for the 2012 - 13 flu season did the vaccination rate substantial improve.

Citing its own data, Henry Ford researchers say the health system achieved employee vaccination rates of 99 percent in the first two years of its mandatory policy, in which annual vaccination compliance is a condition of employment.

For the 2012 - 13 flu season, Henry Ford revised its policy once more, this time requiring annual vaccination for all employees.

«Mandatory policy boosts flu vaccination rates among health care workers.»

«These findings are important because they show that it is only positive to have annual influenza vaccination, and it supports continuing the policy of repeated annual vaccination,» says Professor Rebecca Cox, Head of the Influenza Centre.

Now, new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Oncology, may spur parents, policy makers and medical professionals to think more about the importance of HPV vaccinations.

These findings do not call for changes in vaccine policy or practice, but do suggest the need for additional studies on maternal influenza vaccination and autism.

While we do not advocate changes in vaccine policy or practice, we believe that additional studies are warranted to further evaluate any potential associations between first - trimester maternal influenza vaccination and autism.

Last month, in a step tantamount to heresy in the public health world, scientists at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota released a report saying that influenza vaccinations provide only modest protection for healthy young and middle - age adults, and little if any protection for those 65 and older, who are most likely to succumb to the illness or its complications.

My students began presenting on varied topics from vaccinations to foreign policy — and I noticed a great change in their writing.

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