H1N1 Influenza

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Trends in Risk Perceptions and Vaccination Intentions: A Longitudinal Study of the First Year of the H1N1 Pandemic — Apr 1, 2012

This study seeks to evaluate longitudinal trends in people's risk perceptions and vaccination intentions during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

NEWS RELEASE

Web-Based Tool for Parents of Children with Flu-Like Symptoms Piloted at DC-Area Hospitals — Mar 15, 2012

Researchers from the RAND Corporation and other institutions have begun pilot-testing a web-based tool designed to help parents and adult caregivers determine whether to seek urgent medical attention for a sick child with flu-like symptoms.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Support for Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Requirements Among US Healthcare Personnel — Mar 1, 2012

A majority of HCP support influenza vaccination requirements. Moreover, providing HCP with information about the safety of influenza vaccination and communicating that immunization of HCP is a patient safety issue may be important for generating staff support for influenza vaccination requirements.

COMMENTARY

Heed Film Lessons on Outbreak — Dec 29, 2011

To assure the health security of the United States, we must be capable of stopping anything a terrorist or Mother Nature might throw at us. Wholesale cuts to public health are taking us farther from that goal, write Art Kellermann and Melinda Moore.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Response to the 2009-H1n1 Influenza Pandemic in the Mekong Basin: Surveys of Country Health Leaders — Aug 31, 2011

Cooperation among the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance countries improved their response to the 2009 H1N1 virus in areas previously considered problematic.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Contact and Communication with Healthcare Providers Regarding Influenza Vaccination During the 2009-2010 H1N1 Pandemic — May 31, 2011

Communication between healthcare providers and adults about influenza vaccination was relatively uncommon during the 2009-2010 pandemic. Increased communication could significantly enhance influenza vaccination rates.

RESEARCH BRIEF

What Is the Impact of Workplace Policies to Promote Influenza Vaccination Among Health Care Personnel? — Apr 20, 2011

Health care personnel who were offered vaccination at work were much more likely to be vaccinated for seasonal flu and pandemic flu than those who were not offered vaccination at work.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Workplace Efforts to Promote Influenza Vaccination Among Healthcare Personnel and Their Association with Uptake During the 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) — Jan 31, 2011

Making influenza vaccination available to healthcare personnel at work could increase uptake and highlight the need to reach beyond hospitals in promoting vaccination among these workers.

COMMENTARY

Vaccine Myths Could Cost Lives: They Don't Give You Autism, and They'll Hardly Ever Make You Sick — Jan 13, 2011

Immunization remains the best and first line of defense against serious infectious illness. This year's seasonal flu shot incorporates vaccine for H1N1. It's safe, and it's vitally important to get it, write Art Kellermann and Katherine Harris.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Uptake and Location of Vaccination for 2009-H1n1 and Seasonal Influenza — Dec 31, 2010

This article describes findings from a group of experts assembled to help improve the science of patient safety..

JOURNAL ARTICLE

More Resources Must Be Focused on Understanding Why Many Americans Avoid Flu Vaccine — Nov 23, 2010

More research is needed to improve understanding of Americans' reluctance to be vaccinated against the flu to better prepare the nation for a future pandemic flu outbreak.

COMMENTARY

Flu and Far Between — Sep 20, 2010

In a world where viruses travel as fast as jets, it becomes important for governments to share timely information and accelerate the production and delivery of vaccines, writes Melinda Moore.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Web-based Self-Triage of Influenza-Like Illness During the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic — Aug 31, 2010

A RAND team designed a web-based support tool using clinical algorithms to help minimally trained health care workers and laypeople make informed decisions about care-seeking for influenza-like illness.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Perceived Seriousness of Seasonal and A(H1N1) Influenzas, Attitudes Toward Vaccination, and Vaccine Uptake Among U.S. Adults: Does the Source of Information Matter? — Dec 31, 2009

Information campaigns made more adults concerned about a pandemic, but didn't reassure them sufficiently about H1N1 vaccine safety and effectiveness that they got the vaccine.

MULTIMEDIA

The H1N1 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from the Cities Readiness Initiative — Sep 13, 2009

In this Congressional Briefing held on September 14, 2009, researchers Christopher Nelson and Edward Chan discuss RAND's recently published evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative, which helps the nation's largest metropolitan areas develop the ability to rapidly deliver life-saving medications and other medical supplies to their populations. The study has implications for pandemic influenza and other federal public health…

RESEARCH BRIEF

Risk Communication in the Early Stages of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) Alert: How Effective Were State and Local Public Health Departments? — Aug 11, 2009

Presents an assessment of how effectively state and local health departments communicated information regarding the April 2009 H1N1 virus (swine flu) outbreak via the Web to their constituents.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Health Departments Get Mixed Marks for Using Web to Communicate About Flu Crisis — Jul 6, 2009

State and local health departments get mixed marks for efforts to convey information about the H1N1 virus to the public using their Web sites immediately after U.S. officials declared a public health emergency in April.

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