Objectives. Within a clinic serving disadvantaged children, 1) to evaluate a multifaceted quality improvement (QI) project to improve immunization (IZ) up-to-date (UTD) rates and 2) to assess the efficacy of IZ reminder/recall performed following QI.
It has been slated as a mechanistic approach, which was simplistically expected to improve immunization coverage through the improvements in health infrastructure, financing, supplies, and better management practices [ 4, 5].
Mr. Kono spent a year in Americorps, a domestic version of the Peace Corps, working in the Oakland, Calif., area on a project to improve immunization rates.
Dr. Eddy Bresnitz, the state epidemiologist and deputy commissioner of the Department of Health and Senior Services, credited a statewide Internet-based immunization registry, made official in 2004, with helping to improve immunization rates.
For example, the school vaccination program must be intensified and expanded to improve immunization coverage in urban areas.
Our experience suggests mobile apps can serve as a mechanism to empower users, increase participation in the process of immunization, potentially improve immunization rates and address jurisdictional obstacles.
Leddy, 56, the Venice father, said he had hoped that the YWCA preschool in Santa Monica would have a plan to improve immunization rates.
This study was motivated by the need to improve immunization against influenza specifically and other diseases in general.
The GAVI Alliance, formed in 1999, serves to promote and finance new and under-utilized vaccines, as well as to improve immunization services.
Our research underscores the importance of expanding and maintaining Medicaid enrollment as a key component of efforts to improve immunization coverage as an indicator of public health standards.
The prior improvement in immunization coverage in New Mexico, attributed by CDC and others to initiatives by state government to improve immunization practices, probably reflected expansion in Medicaid enrollment.
