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Immunization Program Links & Publications
Information on Immunization Program Services. Also available: fact sheets for parents, fact sheets on immunizations, including immunization requirements and recommendations.

Recommended Preschool Immunization Schedule for Parents, 2008 (English) (PDF file: 313 KB)
From the New York City DOHMH Immunization Program: Recommended Preschool Immunization Schedule, January 2008.
Recommended Preschool Immunization Schedule for Parents, 2008 (Spanish) (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.


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) web site.

Traveler's Health
-Reference Material for International Travel
-Geographic Health Recommendations
-Disease Outbreaks
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web site.

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 available in different languages.

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 web site.