Immunization Information
Immunization Information
The Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) has released new information sheets for routine immunizations that should help answer parent questions. The handouts are organized in an easy-to-follow question and answer format. Several specific downloads available on the IAC site is highlighted below.
Immunization Websites
The National Network for Immunization Information (NNii)
Provides up-to-date, science-based information to healthcare professionals, the media, and the public; everyone who needs to know the facts about vaccines and immunization.
Florida Department of Health Immunization Information
Mission: Promote and protect the health of all children and adults in Florida through the reduction and eventual elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases; prevention and control of vaccine-preventable diseases through immunization.
Immunization Action Coalition
The Immunization Action Coalition works to increase immunization rates and prevent disease by creating and distributing educational materials for health professionals and the public that enhance the delivery of safe and effective immunization services; the coalition also facilitates communication about the safety, efficacy and use of vaccines within the broad immunization community of patients, parents, and health care organizations and government agencies.
Immunization Action Coalition- Unprotected People Reports
Case reports, personal testimonies, newspaper and journal articles about people who have suffered or died from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Immunization Action Coalition-Vaccine Preventable Disease Information
Comprehensive information about a specific disease and the vaccine that prevents it; each page includes a Q & A section, photos and/or video footage, true stories of individuals who have suffered or died from the disease, descriptions of public policies and references to other resources.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The CDC is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services, which is the principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves; it is committed to achieving true improvements in people's health; the CDC has remained in the forefront of public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, or work place hazards, disabilities and environmental health threats.
Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases (PKIDS)
PKIDS supports families whose children have been affected by viral hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and other diseases and educates the public about effective disease prevention practices; has link to "Ask the Doctor" immunization questions.
Links to FREE Immunization Clinics
- Collier County Health Department
- Glades County Health Department
- Hendry County Health Department
- Lee County Health Department
- Recommended Immunization for Children from Birth through 6 years old
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