School nurses work in a unique environment with key opportunities to address parental concerns and questions regarding their child's health. A common concern for parents during school enrollment is childhood vaccination safety and efficacy. As public health leaders, school nurses are well respected among parents, therefore school nurses are in a prime position to educate parents and promote chi...

Containing an epidemic at its origin is the most desirable mitigation. Epidemics have often originated in rural areas, with rural communities among the first affected. Disease dynamics in rural regions have received limited attention, and results of general studies cannot be directly applied since population densities and human mobility factors are very different in rural regions from those in ...

a field study was conducted in semnan to measure the vaccination coverage rate in children from birth to 24   months and correlate the outcome with personal family and social characteristics of the subjects in 1372 (1994).   a total of 210 children below the age of 24 months, living in semnan were selected randomly from thirty district   points of the town .   to gather the data a two section q...

1 Vaccine Choice Journal —Special Supplement, Spring 2015 Vaccine Choice Journal —Special Supplement, Spring 2015 The Vaccine Choice Journal has received permission from Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic to publish the following letter she addressed to the California State Senate committee as they were considering the passage of Bill 277, a mandatory vaccination law, in April this year. This is such a val...

1 Canadian Center for Vaccinology, Dalhousie University, IWK Health Centre, and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2 School of Nursing, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada Corresponding author: Donna M. MacDougall, PhD, RN St. Francis Xavier University, PO Box 5000, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5 Tel: (902) 867-3392 Email: [email protected] © J...