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 +3 more
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Mandatory HPV Vaccination and Political Debate [PDF]
, 2011 Vaccinations are among the most cost-effective and widely used public health interventions, but have provoked popular resistance, with compulsion framed as an unwarranted state interference.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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The reform of the Italian legislation on childhood immunization [PDF]
, 2018 Upon the proposal of the Italian government, Law n. 191/2017 has been enacted, meant to considerably raise the number of mandatory vaccinations, while leaving several others merely "recommended" (non-mandatory).
Cocchiara, Rosario Andrea +4 more
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Emotions and Incivility in Vaccine Mandate Discourse: Natural Language Processing Insights
JMIR Infodemiology, 2022 BackgroundDespite vaccine availability, vaccine hesitancy has inhibited public health officials’ efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Hannah Stevens +2 more
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Phase I, randomized, observer-blind, placebo-controlled studies to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of an investigational non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) protein vaccine in adults [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a major cause of various respiratory diseases. The development of an effective vaccine against NTHi mandates new approaches beyond conjugated vaccines as this opportunistic bacterium is non ...
Aris, Emmanuel +7 more
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Employer-Mandated Vaccination for COVID-19
American Journal of Public Health, 2021 When the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided to grant emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first two vaccines for COVID-19, the United States' response to the pandemic entered a new phase. Initially, the greatest challenge is having enough doses of vaccine and administering them to all who want it.
Rothstein, Mark A. +2 more
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Ubuntu Philosophy and Mandatory Measles Vaccinations for Children
Religions, 2022 This is a primarily normative paper that draws on the thinking about friendliness grounded in an Afro-communitarian (Ubuntu) philosophy to argue for measles vaccine mandates for children below 6 years old under the assumptions that measles vaccines are ...
Ruach Sarangarajan, Cornelius Ewuoso
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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among adults in four major US metropolitan areas and nationwide
Scientific Reports, 2021 This study assesses attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination and the predictive value of COVID-VAC, a novel scale, among adults in the four largest US metropolitan areas and nationally.
Ayman El-Mohandes +7 more
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Vaccine mandates, public trust, and vaccine confidence: understanding perceptions is important. [PDF]
, 2018 The experience in Australia with penalizing parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated demonstrates the need to study and understand resistance to vaccination as a global phenomenon with particular local ...
Larson, Heidi, Widdus, Roy
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How Well Do Religious Exemptions Apply to Mandates for COVID-19 Vaccines?
Religions, 2023 In the United States, religious exemptions to health-driven mandates enjoy, and should enjoy, protected status in medical ethics and healthcare law. Religious exemptions are defined as seriously professed exceptions to state or federal laws, which appeal
Andrew Flescher
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