Sentences with phrase «vaccination rates»

The authors hope to do a follow - up intervention aimed at improving vaccination rates in people who might not feel strongly about the influenza vaccine either way.

«Changing behavior and making vaccination as easy as possible have been shown to be effective at increasing vaccination rates,» she said.

60 Making nutrition an ongoing lesson; threats of fines, jail, improve vaccination rate; as economy suffers, child neglect cases increase; educating teens about sports drinks, protein bars.

If vaccination becomes closely associated with political identity, the high vaccination rates required to maintain what experts call «herd immunity» might be at risk.

Already, vaccination rates at many schools in the state are well below the protective benchmark of 90 % to 95 %.

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

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.

The research team examined vaccination rates across three clinics — one that used the intervention, and two controls.

However, vaccination rates in some schools must rise to ward off an outbreak of contagious disease.

According to a recently published study, states where that process is harder had higher vaccination rates.

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

That paper, though thoroughly discredited, started a public panic (with celebrity backing) and resulted in tragic outcomes: record low vaccination rates among children, outbreaks of measles in theme parks, resurgences of diseases once considered rare.

«The higher HPV vaccination rates among girls living in poor communities and majority Hispanic communities, which also tend to have high poverty rates, are encouraging because these communities often have higher cervical cancer rates, but continued cervical cancer screening of vaccinated and unvaccinated women is needed because the vaccine does not cover all cancer - causing HPV types and sexually active women could have been infected prior to vaccination.»

The researchers also found that the HPV vaccination rates among Hispanic girls differed depending on the racial composition of the community in which the girls lived.

Although national vaccination rates for school - aged children are high — typically above 95 percent for most vaccines — rates for younger children are considerably lower, and they are particularly susceptible to diseases such as Haemophilus influenzae type b and measles.

Doctors from around the Capital Region gathered at Siena College on Saturday to attend a panel presentation on the lower vaccination rates of teenagers across the state and nationwide, part of an all - day conference organized by the New York State Academy of Family Physicians.

The new requirements boosted vaccination rates among Connecticut's kids from 68 percent to 84 percent.

Annual flu shots have been recommended for all children 6 months to 18 years since 2008 but flu vaccination rates lag behind measles, polio and most other childhood vaccines.

«If health officials want to effectively address low child vaccination rates, it's important to understand not only the parents» motivations but also how the general public views both under - vaccinated children and their parents.»

Measles vaccination rates top 90 % in high - density cities like New York, but new data suggest even the immunized can catch and spread the disease.

SURE SHOT In the United States, HPV vaccination rates lag for girls and boys.

Sulloway reviewed literature «from vaccination rates to death rates to height and weight, all showing middle children get the short end of the stick.»

It also accounts better for herd immunity, the fact that as vaccination rates go up, unvaccinated people are somewhat protected by other people's vaccinations.

The community's vaccination rate dropped significantly over the past decade after anti-vaccination activists, including Wakefield himself, began visiting families in the area.

Turkovich says some studies show autism rates are lowest where vaccination rates are highest.

Professor Peter Openshaw says that it is crucial that local authorities and the NHS take joint action to reverse the trend of declining vaccination rates in England.

The program was originally established in the 1980s after numerous lawsuits filed against vaccine companies ran the risk of causing a vaccine shortage and reducing overall vaccination rates in the United States.

Measles is an extremely contagious pathogen and often the first one to spread when vaccination rates dip below about 95 %.

A previous paper by Dr. Stockwell and colleagues looked at the impact of text messaging reminders for first dose influenza vaccination rates in pediatric and adolescent populations.

Although HPV vaccines can prevent the majority of cervical, anal, mid-throat, and other genital cancers, national vaccination rates remain low, with just 41.9 percent of girls and 28.1 percent of boys completing the recommend vaccine series.

Although NIS data are used to study vaccination rates, beginning in 2001, breastfeeding questions were added and are used to track breastfeeding practices in the United States.

Even with the suboptimal vaccination rates, there has been an impact on infections.

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

Reference: Statistics: CDC Releases New Data on Vaccination Rates For Infants and Children (19 - 35 Months)(Infodocket)

Since last July, 35 people in Europe have died of measles in an outbreak that has been attributed to decreasing vaccination rates.

My community suffers from low vaccination rates due to the long since debunked connection between Autism and the MMR vaccine and has seen a resurgence of illnesses that not to many years ago were extremely rare due to vaccination.

«HPV vaccination rates alarmingly low among young women in Southern US.»

Larson notes that health ministries in other countries aggressively promoted vaccine safety after claims of side effects surfaced, keeping vaccination rates high.

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.

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

Changes in the bacterial culprit itself and lower vaccination rates also contribute to whooping cough's reemergence.

The result was a 99 percent vaccination rate.

In the years after, MMR vaccination rates among 2 - year - olds in England dropped below 80 %.

Published in a five - page Lancet paper in February 1998, it triggered media campaigns which sent vaccination rates plummeting, and caused the most intractable health alarm in a generation.