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Immunization strategies targeting newly arrived migrants in Non-EU countries of the mediterranean basin and black sea [PDF]

, 2017
Background: The World Health Organization recommends that host countries ensure appropriate vaccinations to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. However, information on vaccination strategies targeting migrants in host countries is limited. Methods: In
Declich, Silvia, Del Manso, Martina, Dente, Maria Grazia, Giambi, Cristina, Mediterranean Basin Black Sea, Montano-Remacha, Carmen, Napoli, Christian, Riccardo, Flavia   +7 more
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Partnering with healthcare systems to improve HPV vaccination:The perspective of immunization program managers

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
The US’s 64 CDC-funded immunization programs are at the forefront of efforts to improve the quality of adolescent vaccination services. We sought to understand immunization program managers’ perspectives on partnering with healthcare systems to improve ...
Brigid K. Grabert, Jennifer Heisler-MacKinnon, Rachel Kurtzman, Adam Bjork, Katelyn Wells, Noel T. Brewer, Melissa B. Gilkey   +6 more
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A Community Hospital Immunization Program [PDF]

Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 1967
W ITH THE ADVENT of modern vaccines, diseases such as smallpox, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria are now essentially preventable. Although a confirmed indigenous case of smallpox has not been reported in the United States since 1949 according to the Surveillance Section of the Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center, cases of diphtheria and ...
C J, Sells, E D, Lyman, C D, Kirby
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COVID-19 vaccine evidence monitoring assisted by artificial Intelligence: An emergency system implemented by the Public Health Agency of Canada to capture and describe the trajectory of evolving pandemic vaccine literature

Vaccine: X
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid accumulation of novel vaccine research evidence. As a means to monitor this evidence, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) created the Evidence eXtraction Team for Research Analysis (EXTRA ...
Su Hyun Lim, Mona Hersi, Ramya Krishnan, Joshua Montroy, Bonnie Rook, Kelly Farrah, Yung-En Chung, Adrienne Stevens, Joseline Zafack, Eva Wong, Nicole Forbes, April Killikelly, Kelsey Young, Matthew Tunis   +13 more
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Going beyond the individual: How state-level characteristics relate to HPV vaccine rates in the United States [PDF]

, 2019
Background The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is an underutilized cancer control practice in the United States. Although individual contextual factors are known to impact HPV vaccine coverage rates, the impact of macro-level elements are still ...
Brownson, Ross C, Franco, Melissa, Mazzucca, Stephanie, Padek, Margaret   +3 more
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Attacking the public health crisis of hepatocellular carcinoma at its roots

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract As the third most common cause of cancer‐related death worldwide with significant mortality rates in the United States, hepatocellular carcinoma has strong association with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) with a growing at‐risk population from the rise in chronic liver disease from alcohol use and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Hannah M. Lee, Steven D. Lidofsky, Tamar H. Taddei, Lisa J. Townshend‐Bulson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

National Near Real-Time Vaccine Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Severe Outcomes Using the Screening Method Among Older Adults Aged ≥50 Years in Canada

Vaccines
Background/Objectives: It is critical to monitor real-world COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) in older adults, as they have been identified as a priority group for vaccination.
Robert MacTavish, Andreea Slatculescu, Dylan Ermacora, Katarina Vukovojac, Tanner Noth, Natalie Ward, Kathleen Laskoski, Daniela Fleming, Baanu Manoharan, Julie Laroche, Aissatou Fall   +10 more
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The impact of supplementary immunization activities on the epidemiology of measles in Tianjin, China

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Objectives: China has repeatedly used supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) to work towards measles elimination, but it is unknown if the SIAs are reaching non-locals – migrants from rural to urban areas. This study characterized temporal trends in
Abram L. Wagner, Ying Zhang, Bhramar Mukherjee, Yaxing Ding, Eden V. Wells, Matthew L. Boulton   +5 more
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U.S. Immunization program adult immunization activities and resources [PDF]

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2015
Adults are recommended to receive vaccines based on their age, medical conditions, prior vaccinations, occupation and lifestyle. However, adult immunization coverage is low in the United States and lags substantially below Healthy People 2020 goals. To assess activities and resources designated for adult immunization programs by state and local health ...
LaDora O, Woods, Carolyn B, Bridges, Samuel B, Graitcer, Brock, Lamont   +3 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source