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.
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Flu vaccine rates in children may drop when the nasal spray vaccine is unavailable
As Peter Hortez, the head of the Sabine Institute for Vaccine Research, puts it, even though most anti-vaxxers are white,
when vaccine rates drop, the people who hurt the most will be «people who live in poor, crowded conditions.
However, Ruffin says the workflow and culture of individual clinics is also a critical factor when it comes to prompts
influencing vaccine rates.
«Despite substantial public health efforts, flu
vaccine rates for U.S. children are well below national targets,» says lead author Sarah J. Clark, M.P.H., associate director of the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health and associate research scientist in the U-M Department of Pediatrics.
It is therefore crucial that there is enough vaccine coverage in their local communities to generate «herd immunity»,
where vaccine rates are at 95 % or above ensuring resistance to disease transmission exists across the whole community, even for the few patients who can not be vaccinated (please see out vaccine briefing for more information).
As with PIDs, high
community vaccine rates and herd immunity are vital to prevent transmission of common diseases to immunocompromised individuals, who can not be vaccinated.
According to the study, psychology offers three general propositions for understanding and intervening to increase
vaccine rates.
Despite the fact the vaccine is free,
vaccine rates are lower than expected a number of regions, in part because parents perceive their daughter's level of sexual activity as low at young ages.
Though gender differences in
vaccine rates have narrowed, more girls than boys tend to get immunized against HPV.