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Vaccination

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Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: Barriers, Disparities, And Potential Solutions, Gracie Margaret Chiampas May 2024

Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: Barriers, Disparities, And Potential Solutions, Gracie Margaret Chiampas

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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An Epidemiologic Study Of Vaccination Exemptions And Pertussis Risk, Corinne B. Tandy Dec 2021

An Epidemiologic Study Of Vaccination Exemptions And Pertussis Risk, Corinne B. Tandy

Doctoral Dissertations

The incidence of pertussis, a vaccine-preventable disease that can have severe complications in infants, has been increasing in the United States over the past three decades. Vaccine hesitancy and refusal have also increased and are associated with vaccination exemptions, which in turn are associated with outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, including pertussis. Understanding attitudes towards vaccinations and identifying geographic disparities of vaccination exemptions and pertussis risks is useful for guiding control programs. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to: (i) investigate attitudes towards vaccinations; (ii) identify county-level geographic disparities and sociodemographic predictors of vaccination exemptions in Florida; (iii) investigate county-level …


Measles In Germany: Past, Present, And Future Of Outbreaks And Vaccination, Erin Hope Sherwin May 2016

Measles In Germany: Past, Present, And Future Of Outbreaks And Vaccination, Erin Hope Sherwin

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.