Disease relevance of Immunization Programs

• RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A comparison was made of the cumulative incidence of IDDM in children age 0-12 years between two birth cohorts born before pertussis vaccination and two birth cohorts born after pertussis vaccination had been excluded from the Swedish national immunization program [1].
• The National Immunization Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is responsible for controlling infectious diseases through vaccination, but the program also plays a key role in postlicensure vaccine safety assessment [2].
• BACKGROUND: British Columbia introduced a preadolescent hepatitis B (HB) immunization program in 1992 [3].
• Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it was a collaborative effort of the National Immunization Program, the Division of Adolescent and School Health/National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and the Hepatitis Branch/National Center for Infectious Diseases [4].

High impact information on Immunization Programs

• DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Population-based, retrospective cohort study of data from 1985 through 1992, collected by the Measles Surveillance System of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as from annual state immunization program reports on prevalence of exemptors and vaccination coverage [5].
• A limited immunization program was initiated in low-responding volunteers from the SLE and normal populations [6].
• The operation of the national swine influenza immunization program was observed in the community of Tecumseh, Michigan. The purpose was to determine acceptability of a parenteral vaccine intended for the general population [7].
• In an attempt to control these outbreaks, local immunization programs, with polysaccharide vaccines, directed at school age children and adolescents were initiated [8].
• Following the launch of a publicly funded influenza immunization program for all residents of Ontario over the age of 6 months, we evaluated 203 parents of children who presented to our emergency department between January and March of the following year (2001) [9].

Biological context of Immunization Programs

• METHODS: The case-study reports were developed through interviews with state and local health department officials, including immunization program directors, Medicaid agency staff, budget analysts, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public health advisors to the jurisdiction [10].
• Despite the nationwide immunization programs to curtail the vertical transmission of HBV, childhood HBV infection through mothers is still occurring in Korea. As one of the efforts to understand the childhood HBV infection in Korea, four HBV promoter sequences in the sera of the chronically infected children were analyzed [11].

Associations of Immunization Programs with chemical compounds

• It has been proposed that vitamin A supplementation could be linked with childhood immunization programs to improve child health [12].
• We can do the job ourselves: Marshall Islanders push intensive immunization program [13].
• Despite a lack of evidence of a causal relationship to a variety of vaccine safety concerns, including extensive reviews by the Institute of Medicine, questions regarding vaccine safety continue to threaten the success of immunization programs [14].
• In this regard, 1990 is identified as the most historic year ever in world history for children, and the achievements of the Universal Child Immunization program in immunizing 80% of children of the Third World under one year of age by December 1990 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the World Summit for Children are cited [15].

Gene context of Immunization Programs

• The potential increase in susceptibility to influenza and death from respiratory illness in patients with RA and the demonstrated safety and immunogenicity of influenza vaccine should require the inclusion of patients with RA in standard immunization programs [16].
• In an interim analysis of our ongoing immunization program against hepatitis B (HB), started in early 1982, we tested 283 serum samples from 77 female and 110 male vaccinees for antibody to HB surface antigen (anti-HBs) [17].
• Immunization program among primary school pupils (experience in Paya Bakung village, North Aceh) [18].

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