Programmatic Area: school immunizations

Colorado continues to rank at the bottom of immunization coverage rates in the United States. For the 2018-2019 school year, Colorado’s kindergarten coverage rate for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine was 87.4%, a 1.3% decrease from the previous…

Utah: Online Immunization Education Module

December 7, 2018
Program Practices

State law went into effect in 2018 requiring parents seeking an exemption for personal, medical or religious reasons to complete an online education module detailing the effects of non-vaccination as well as the side effects of immunization. The module, which…

School-located flu clinics

November 26, 2018
Influenza, Program Practices

The Arkansas Department of Health has been conducting school-located flu clinics in most public schools across the state since 2005. For the 2017-2018 flu season and when adding in private schools and a few daycares, there were 1,706 clinic sites held with 133,060 doses of flu vaccine administered. School-located flu clinics are being conducted again…

Changes to Utah Vaccination Law – Conditional Enrollment and Non-compliance

July 30, 2018
Program Practices

Beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, students in Utah not vaccinated will be admitted to school only on a conditional enrollment status for 21 calendar days after the student and his or her parents have been put on notice. After…

School Immunization Quality Improvement in North Dakota

July 17, 2018
Program Practices

[2018 Bull’s-Eye Award Winner!] To better understand North Dakota’s decreasing immunization rates, increasing exemption rates, and the large number of students with an unknown immunization status, the North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) implemented quality improvement to increase rates at…