US college and university student health screening requirements for tuberculosis and vaccine-preventable diseases, 2012

Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Improving Health through Elimination and Eradication of Vaccine Preventable Diseases

The last two centuries have seen an extraordinary reduction in the morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases as a result of improvements in health and hygiene-related conditions and the introduction of vaccinations. Vaccines against infectious diseases with a human reservoir can have the following beneficial effects : control, elimination, eradication and extinction of the disease. Vac...

Vaccine-preventable diseases.

The panel addressed four main areas of vaccine development and use: diseases of public health importance for which no vaccine is available; diseases for which an existing licensed vaccine is not optimal and alternative vaccines are under development; diseases for which a vaccine exists but is not being used optimally; and diseases requiring vaccines of specialized or limited use, such as those ...

Tuberculosis screening and targeted testing of college and university students.

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Vaccine-preventable diseases and foreign-born populations.

According to the most recent census data, foreign-born individuals account for more than 12% of the US population. Because many vaccine-preventable outbreaks in the United States have been correlated with disease importation, Congress has mandated vaccinations for numerous immigrant populations. It is essential for primary care physicians to be knowledgeable about the unique immunization-relate...