Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's School Vaccination Assessment: Collaboration With US State, Local, and Territorial Immunization Programs, 2012-2018.

ABSTRACT: Objectives. To describe the ongoing collaboration of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) school vaccination assessment with state, local, and territorial immunization programs to provide data to monitor school entry vaccination.Methods. Departments of health and education partner to collect data from public school, private school, and homeschooled kindergartners in the 50 US states, the District of Columbia, 2 cities, and the US territories. Immunization programs submit vaccination coverage and exemption data to the CDC, and the CDC reports these data annually via multiple sources.Results. Among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, the number of programs using a census for vaccination coverage data increased from 39 to 41 during the school y

SUBMITTER: Mellerson JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7287563 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature