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Whisnant, Joanna; Martin-Kerry, Jacqueline; Flett, Lydia; Knapp, Peter – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To identify predictors of meningococcal vaccine uptake among university and college students, the most common carriers of meningococcal disease. Participants: University or college students aged 18 to 25 years. Methods: Multiple databases, citations, and gray literature were systematically searched in April 2017 and January 2019, for…
Descriptors: College Students, Immunization Programs, Disease Control, Communicable Diseases
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Lara S. Savas; Albert J. Farias; C. Mary Healy; Ross Shegog; Maria E. Fernandez; Erica L. Frost; Sharon P. Coan; Claire A. Crawford; Stanley W. Spinner; Matthew A. Wilber; Travis A. Teague; Sally W. Vernon – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2021
Background: Low adolescent HPV vaccination initiation due to parents declining vaccination remains a challenge for providers. In 2018, 65% of adolescent girls and 56% of adolescent boys in Texas initiated HPV vaccination. Gaps between HPV vaccination rates and those for Tdap (83%) and meningococcal vaccines (87%) among 13-17 year olds highlights…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Child Health, Disease Control, Preventive Medicine
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Sergio Calavia; B. Bravo-Torija; B. Mazas – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This paper presents an analysis of the socio-scientific dimensions which 46 11th graders, enrolled in the subject scientific culture, consider to justify their COVID-19 vaccination decision and how they managed to combine and integrate these dimensions before and after working on a sequence of activities aimed at learning about argumentation in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, High School Students
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Stevens, Taryn; Golwalkar, Mugdha – Journal of American College Health, 2018
ABSTRACTObjective: Complete and accurate documentation of immunization records and surveillance of disease transmission are critical to the public health response to outbreaks of communicable disease in institutions of higher education (IHEs). This study aims to describe immunization documentation practices and disease surveillance capacity among…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Immunization Programs, Documentation
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Talavera, Isidoro – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2017
By highlighting the critical thinking that (1) analyzes and evaluates arguments for claims about vaccinations and autism, and (2) engages in a form of methodological skepticism that systematically and continuously asks Critical Questions, a philosophical approach is introduced to deal directly and systematically with students' (and publicly…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Autism, Misconceptions, Correlation
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Cooper, Spring C.; Davies, Cristyn; McBride, Kate; Blades, Joanna; Stoney, Tanya; Marshall, Helen; Skinner, S. Rachel – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: Australia has implemented a nation-wide programme providing a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to girls and boys through school-based programmes. Previous research has identified three distinct areas for attention: (1) lack of understanding about HPV and HPV vaccination, (2) young people's desire for involvement in decision-making…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Microbiology, Intervention, Adolescents
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Cutler, Marianne; Lawrence, Liz – Primary Science, 2016
In this article, Marianne Cutler and Liz Lawrence describe in more detail the opportunities for "working scientifically" provided by this new Association for Science Education (ASE) resource, which was introduced in the previous issue, along with some of the feedback from teachers who have trialled the resources. [This article was…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Immunization Programs, Disease Control, Science Instruction
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Jones, Melissa; Cook, Robert – Journal of American College Health, 2008
Objective and Participants: In 2006, the authors examined intention to receive an HPV vaccine among 340 college students. Methods: A total of 138 men and 202 women completed questionnaires. The authors measured intention by asking participants how likely they would be to accept an HPV vaccine that prevented against (1) all HPV, (2) cervical cancer…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Immunization Programs, Cancer, Intention
Logan, Jennifer – American Journal of Health Education, 2008
Traditionally, vaccines have been associated with childhood. Historically, many of the most-feared communicable diseases attacked infants and toddlers, and those who survived were generally protected from those diseases as adults. During the past century tremendous advances in vaccination spared millions the morbidity and mortality associated with…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Access to Health Care, Immunization Programs
Harris, Katherine M.; Martin, Laurie T.; Lurie, Nicole – RAND Corporation, 2009
In 2007, Sanofi Pasteur asked RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation, to study the current climate for adolescent immunization in the United States, to recommend broad strategies for immunizing low-income adolescents (through age 18), and to identify promising "on the ground" practices consistent with the proposed strategic…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Income, Immunization Programs, Child Health
Nebraska State Dept. of Health, Lincoln. – 1984
The data contained in this report represents all of the 297,696 students, K-12, in the state of Nebraska. High levels of immunity are documented among children grades K-6. Some immunization levels of children grades 7-12 are yet below the 95 percent established as a minimum for the prevention of vaccine preventable diseases. Specifically, there…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Immunization Programs, Preventive Medicine
American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, IL. – 1988
Pertussis is a severe epidemic and endemic disease with significant morbidity and mortality. The use of whole-cell pertussis vaccines in the United States has been effective in controlling the disease but not in decreasing the circulation of the organism. Whole-cell vaccines commonly cause reactions in children, and in addition, they are often…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Immunization Programs, Internal Medicine, Medical Services
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Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Reports four basic strategies of the current child survival revolution in the world: use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for preventing and treating diarrheal dehydration (the biggest single killer of children in the modern world), growth monitoring to prevent child malnutrition, breast-feeding, and immunization to provide protection against six…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Health Education, Hunger, Immunization Programs
Califano, Joseph A., Jr. – Teacher, 1978
The United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare discusses the national need to ensure that all children are immunized against childhood diseases--polio, measles, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. (RK)
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Elementary Education, Government Role
Association for Retarded Citizens, Arlington, TX. – 1988
The fact sheet provides basic information about Hib Disease in young children, which may involve a bacterial meningitis causing mental retardation, hearing loss, partial blindness, speech disorders, partial paralysis, behavioral problems, or seizures. Stressed is prevention of Hib Disease through immunization. The question and answer format…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Diseases, Immunization Programs
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