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- Title
Campaign Aims to Boost Adult Vaccinations.
- Authors
Voelker, Rebecca
- Abstract
The article reports on a comprehensive education campaign about adult vaccinations for infectious diseases which is aimed at patients and health care professionals and was launched in April of 2009 by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). The campaign features a website, (http//www.adultvaccination.com) that contains information on twelve adult diseases and the vaccines that can help prevent them and also contains tools that physicians can use to encourage patients to remain current on immunizations. Diseases which can lead to death or severe illness without immunization are discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HEALTH education; UNITED States. National Foundation for Infectious Diseases; VACCINATION; IMMUNIZATION; PREVENTION of communicable diseases; PREVENTIVE medicine; PUBLIC health
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009, Vol 301, Issue 19, p1976
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2009.672