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NYC-DOHMH, Immunization Program Links
Immunization Program Links & Publications
Information on Immunization Program Services, including provider information on immunizations, Vaccines for Children (VFC), Lifetime Health Record, Immunization Clinics. Also available: fact sheets for parents, fact sheets on immunizations, including immunization requirements and recommendations.
Vaccines for Children Program (VFC)
National Site. VFC is the federally-funded Vaccines for Children Program that supplies doctors in private and public health care facilities with free vaccines for children.
Recommended Preschool Immunization Schedule, 2008 (English) (PDF file: 313 KB)
From the New York City DOHMH Immunization Program: Recommended Preschool Immunization Schedule, January 2008.
Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, United States, 2008 (PDF file: 267.29 KB)
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, 2008.
Other Immunization Related Sites and Materials
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
The National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) is a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a disease-prevention program, the NCIRD provides leadership for the planning, coordination and conduct of immunization activities nationwide.
Development of Immunization Registries
Brief description of the public health need of state-based immunization registry systems, accomplishments, and goals for the 2010 national health objectives.
PDF document from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
Vaccine Safety
Health information for parents. Addresses questions about the risks associated with vaccines. What are vaccines made of? How are they licensed? Are side effects monitored? Why do we need wide-spread immunization programs when infectious diseases are at an all-time low?
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
Traveler's Health
-Reference Material for International Travel
-Geographic Health Recommendations
-Disease Outbreaks
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
The Pink Book
"Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases" course Textbook, 9th Edition.
Order or download from CDC.
Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
Comprehensive recommendations developed by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The committee consists of 15 experts in fields associated with immunization who have been selected by the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide advice and guidance to the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the most effective means to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases.
Immunization Action Coalition
Promotes physician, community, and family awareness of, and responsibility for, appropriate immunization of all children and adults against all vaccine-preventable diseases. Information is available in different languages.
American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA)
A membership organization with the goal of preventing and controlling vaccine preventable disease by enhancing the capacity of population-based immunization registries. This is done by providing a forum through which registry programs, interested organizations and individuals and communities may combine efforts and share methods, techniques, standards and information. The Association also promotes policies and programs to support registry networks and the privacy and confidentiality of data collected.
Vaccine Education Center
This site provides accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information about childhood vaccines, and the diseases they prevent, to parents and health-care professionals.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia website.
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