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Promoting Vaccines in Office-Based Medical Settings Is Needed to Boost Adult Immunization Rates

Promoting immunizations as a part of routine office-based medical practice is needed to improve adult vaccination rates, a highly effective way to curb the spread of diseases across communities, prevent needless illness and deaths, and lower health care costs.

Jan 11, 2012
Report

Promoting Vaccines in Office-Based Medical Settings Is Needed to Boost Adult Immunization Rates

Promoting immunizations as a part of routine office-based medical practice is needed to improve adult vaccination rates, a highly effective way to curb the spread of diseases across communities, prevent needless illness and deaths, and lower health care costs.

Jan 11, 2012
Journal Article

More Frequent Natural Disasters Could Damage Health Outcomes in Developing Countries

Researchers present one of the first investigations into the impact of small and moderate disasters on morbidity, physical growth, and immunizations by combining household data on over 80,000 children from rural India.

Jan 1, 2012
Commentary

Heed Film Lessons on Outbreak

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.

Dec 29, 2011
Journal Article

Balancing "Fidelity" and Community Context in the Adaptation of Asthma Evidence-Based Interventions in the "Real World"

The Merck Childhood Asthma Network (MCAN) initiative selected five sites (New York City, Puerto Rico, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia) to engage in translational research to adapt evidence-based interventions (EBIs) to improve childhood asthma outcomes. The authors summarize the sites' experience.

Nov 1, 2011
Journal Article

Community-Based Care Coordination: Practical Applications for Childhood Asthma

An alternative approach employs community-based care coordinators who bridge gaps between families, health care providers, and support services. Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc. (MCAN) sites developed community-based care coordination approaches for childhood asthma.

Nov 1, 2011
Journal Article

Using the PedsQL™ 3.0 Asthma Module to Obtain Scores Comparable with Those of the PROMIS Pediatric Asthma Impact Scale (PAIS)

The National Institutes of Health's Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) has developed several scales measuring symptoms and function for use by the clinical research community.

Nov 1, 2011
Journal Article

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hospital Care Resulting from Air Pollution in Excess of Federal Standards

This study investigates racial and ethnic disparities in hospital admission and emergency room visit rates resulting from exposure to ozone and fine particulate matter levels in excess of federal standards ("excess attributable risk").

Oct 1, 2011
Journal Article

Response to the 2009-H1n1 Influenza Pandemic in the Mekong Basin: Surveys of Country Health Leaders

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

Sep 1, 2011
Journal Article

Medicare's Bundled Payment Pilot for Acute and Postacute Care: Analysis and Recommendations on Where to Begin

Medicare's National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling should use hip fracture and joint replacement as the conditions to include and use longer episodes, capturing a higher percentage of costs and hospital readmissions but adding little financial risk.

Sep 1, 2011
Journal Article

Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Health-Care Personnel — United States, 2010-11 Influenza Season

This article reports on the results of a survey of health care workers to determine whether they had received an influenza vaccine in April 2011.

Aug 1, 2011
Journal Article

Contact and Communication with Healthcare Providers Regarding Influenza Vaccination During the 2009-2010 H1N1 Pandemic

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.

Jun 1, 2011
Research Brief

What Is the Impact of Workplace Policies to Promote Influenza Vaccination Among Health Care Personnel?

Presents data from a national survey of health care personnel describing a range of employer efforts to promote influenza vaccination and their associations with vaccination rates during the 2009-2010 influenza season.

Apr 20, 2011
Journal Article

Assessing Small Non-Zero Perceptions of Chance: The Case of H1N1 (Swine) Flu Risks

We examined the effect of allowing participants to give more precise responses in the 0-1% range on the validity of reported probability judgments. Participants assessed probabilities for getting H1N1 influenza and dying from it conditional on infection, using a 0-100% visual linear scale.

Apr 1, 2011
Research Brief

Why Don't More Americans Get the Flu Vaccine?

Seasonal flu can be prevented by annual vaccination, which has proven to be safe and effective, yet vaccination rates among Americans remain low. Strategies to increase vaccination rates need to include stronger efforts to address public skepticism.

Feb 14, 2011
Journal Article

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

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.

Feb 1, 2011
News Release

Hispanic Seniors Less Likely to Be Immunized Against Flu and Pneumonia

Seniors of Hispanic descent are far less likely to become immunized against the flu or pneumonia compared to similar White seniors.

Jan 24, 2011
Journal Article

Hispanic Seniors Less Likely to Be Immunized Against Flu and Pneumonia

Seniors of Hispanic descent are far less likely to become immunized against the flu or pneumonia compared to similar White seniors. Those who prefer speaking Spanish and live in linguistically isolated communities are least likely to be immunized.

Jan 23, 2011
Commentary

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

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.

Jan 13, 2011
Journal Article

Who Knew? Awareness of Being Recommended for Influenza Vaccination Among US Adults

The CDC recommends annual influenza vaccination for all people aged 6 months and older unless contraindicated, but most US adults don't know that the vaccination recommendation is universal.

Jan 1, 2011

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