Alternative vaccination locations: Who uses them and can they increase flu vaccination rates?

Bruce Y. Lee; Ateev Mehrotra; Rachel M. Burns; Katherine M. Harris

doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.04.055

Alternative vaccination locations: Who uses them and can they increase flu vaccination rates?

Bruce Y. Lee, Ateev Mehrotra, Rachel M. Burns, Katherine M. Harris

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Abstract

Since many unvaccinated individuals do not regularly contact the traditional health care system, we sought to determine the role that alternative vaccination locations (e.g., workplaces and retail clinics) could play in increasing influenza vaccination coverage. Between February 14, 2008 and March 10, 2008, a 25-question influenza vaccine questionnaire was administered to a nationally representative, stratified sample of panelists. Our results found that while alternative locations are covering some segments not captured by the traditional health care system (e.g., younger, working, white individuals in metropolitan areas), they are not serving many other segments (e.g., minority, rural, or lower income patients).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4252-4256
Number of pages	5
Journal	Vaccine
Volume	27
Issue number	32
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.04.055
State	Published - Jul 9 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Influenza vaccine
Retail clinics
Vaccination location
Workplaces

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Molecular Medicine
General Immunology and Microbiology
General Veterinary
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Infectious Diseases

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