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1. Public Health Perspectives

Objectives

a. Explain how immunization practice relates to the three levels of disease prevention (i.e., primary, secondary,and tertiary).​
b. Describe the impact of immunization on vaccine-preventable disease incidence.
c. Recognize the nurse’s professional responsibility for keeping her/his own immunizations up to date.
d. Describe the purpose of the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program.
e. Discuss how the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) develops immunization recommendations (see Topic 6–Immunization Schedules).
f. Describe the role of your state and/or local immunization program.
g. Describe the nursing roles related to public health: advocate, care coordinator, educator, school health care provider, state immunization coalition member, leader, and lifelong learner.

Resources

Web pages
CDC Global Health–Infographic: The Global Impact of Vaccines in Reducing Vaccine-Preventable Disease Morbidity and Mortality
  • www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/infographics/global_impact_of_vaccines.htm

CDC Vaccines and Immunizations
  • Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
    www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/about.html

  • Awardee Immunization Websites
    www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/awardee-imz-websites.html

  • Recommended Vaccines for Healthcare Workers
    www.cdc.gov/vaccines/adults/rec-vac/hcw.html

  • Vaccines for Children Program
    www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/index.html
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Healthy People 2020–Immunization and Infectious Diseases
  • www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/immunization-and-infectious-diseases
Journal articles
  • CDC. Immunization of Health-Care Personnel: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR Recomm Rep. 2011;60(RR-07):1-45.

  • CDC. Impact of vaccines universally recommended for children—United States, 1990–1998. MMWR. 1999;48:243–248.
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  • Owen L, Morgan A, Fischer A, Ellis S, Hoy A, Kelly MP.The cost-effectiveness of public health interventions. ​Journal of Public Health. 2011;34(1):37-45.​
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  • Whitney CG, Zhuo F, Singleton J, Schuchat A. Benefits from immunization during the Vaccines for Children program era–United States, 1994-2013.​ MMWR. 2014;63:352-355.
Learning modules 
CDC You Call the Shots–Vaccines for Children Program Module
  • www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ed/youcalltheshots.html
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Nursing Initiative Promoting Immunization Training (NIP-IT)
  • Module 1: Vaccine Preventable Diseases–Historical Timeline of Infectious Diseases
    nip-it.org/vaccine_preventable_diseases.asp
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  • Module 2: Vaccine Recommendations–Vaccine Development
    ​nip-it.org/vaccine_recommendations.asp
books
  • ​Kaiser KL, Rector C. Maternal-Child Health: Working with Perinatal Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Clients. In: Allender J, Rector C, Warner K, eds. Community and Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Public’s Health, 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2013:656-698.
  • Marshall G. Introduction to Vaccinology. In: Marshall G. The Vaccine Handbook: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, 5th ed. West Islip, NY: Professional Communications, Inc.; 2015:9-47.
  • Marshall G. Vaccine Infrastructure in the United States. In: Marshall G. The Vaccine Handbook: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, 5th ed. West Islip, NY: Professional Communications, Inc.; 2015:48-79.
  • Smith JE, Rector C. School-Age Children and Adolescents. In: Allender J, Rector C, Warner K, eds. Community and Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Public’s Health, 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2013: 699-752.
  • Smith-Sayer K. Communicable Disease Control. In: Allender J, Rector C, Warner K, eds. Community and Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Public’s Health, 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2013:246-284.
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