Legislative and administrative actions to increase vaccination coverage in Washington schools.

ABSTRACT: Current outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S. highlight the consequences of declining levels of vaccination coverage. Attempts to increase coverage by banning or restricting nonmedical exemptions from school-entry vaccination requirements disregard children not up to date on vaccination who already attend school and those who are not up to date for reasons other than vaccine hesitancy. We analyze the potential effects of legislative and administrative options to increase vaccination coverage in Washington schools. We constructed a grade-specific model of the detailed vaccination status for all required vaccines and the MMR vaccine specifically for all children in the state's school system. We used scenario modeling to evaluate the effects of potential legislative and admini

SUBMITTER: Delamater PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7227713 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature