State and national vaccination coverage levels among children aged 19-35 months - United States, April-December 1994
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Childhood vaccination rates from the 1994 National Immunization Survey (NIS) are the highest ever reported in the U.S. The NIS collected information by phone on children in 50 states born from May 1991 to May 1993 and who were between 19 and 35 months of age. A total of 25,247 interviews were completed. Vaccination coverage was estimated at 75% for at least four doses of diptheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccines, three doses of poliovirus vaccine, and one dose of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. For DPT, the coverage was greater than 90%. A health objective for the year 2000 is to achieve coverage of 90% or greater among 2-year-olds for the complete series of childhood vaccinations.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1995
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Extraimmunization Among US Children
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Many children receive more vaccine doses than they need. In a survey of the medical records of 22,806 children, 21% received more vaccine doses than they needed. The annual cost of this excess vaccination was estimated to be $26.5 million. Children who had more than one doctor were most likely to be over-vaccinated. Those whose parents used both public and private health services were also more likely to be over-vaccinated.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2000
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National, State, and Urban Area Vaccination Coverage Levels Among Children Aged 19-35 Months--United States, 2000
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More children were vaccinated against chickenpox, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough in 2000 than in 1999, but vaccination against polio, Hemophilus influenza type b, measles, mumps, and German measles did not change substantially.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2001
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