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- Title
Legislative Prescriptions for Controlling Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions.
- Authors
Yang, Y. Tony; Silverman, Ross D.
- Abstract
The article looks at the five broad groups of exemption characteristics to assess the protective strength of a state childhood vaccination exemption law. Topics discussed include the type of exemptions available in a state, the scope of populations and entities to which the law applies and its impact on the restrictiveness of state vaccination law, and the attributes related to exemption review mechanisms.
- Subjects
VACCINES; VACCINATION policies; VACCINATION of children laws; PREVENTION of communicable diseases in children; IMMUNIZATION of children
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2015, Vol 313, Issue 3, p247
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2014.16286