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| D A SalmonSummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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Religious and philosophical exemptions from vaccination requirements and lessons learned from conscientious objectors from conscriptionD A Salmon
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Pubic Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Public Health Rep 116:289-95. 2001....
Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of school nurses and personnel and associations with nonmedical immunization exemptionsDaniel A Salmon
Institute for Vaccine Safety, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Pediatrics 113:e552-9. 2004....
Enhancing public confidence in vaccines through independent oversight of postlicensure vaccine safetyDaniel A Salmon
Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Suite 5034, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 94:947-50. 2004..Such a board would have been useful in recent vaccine safety concerns, and its independence from government programs would ensure optimal vaccine safety and enhance public confidence in vaccines...
Exemptions to school immunization requirements: the role of school-level requirements, policies, and proceduresDaniel A Salmon
Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Room W5034, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 95:436-40. 2005..Our goal was to determine whether school-level variability in implementation of immunization requirements is associated with the likelihood of a child having received an exemption to school immunization requirements...
Public health and the politics of school immunization requirementsDaniel A Salmon
Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Rm E5543, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 95:778-83. 2005..Our observations may assist states whose current nonmedical exemption provisions are constitutionally suspect as well as states lacking legally appropriate administrative controls on existing, broad non-medical exemptions...
Factors associated with refusal of childhood vaccines among parents of school-aged children: a case-control studyDaniel A Salmon
Institute for Vaccine Safety, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Rm E5543, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:470-6. 2005..The rate of nonmedical exemptions to school immunization requirements has been increasing, and children with exemptions have contributed to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases...
Vaccine knowledge and practices of primary care providers of exempt vs. vaccinated childrenDaniel A Salmon
Institute for Vaccine Safety and Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Hum Vaccin 4:286-91. 2008..Compare vaccine knowledge, attitudes and practices of primary care providers for fully vaccinated children and children who are exempt from school immunization requirements...
Parental vaccine refusal in Wisconsin: a case-control studyDaniel A Salmon
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
WMJ 108:17-23. 2009..We explored differences in vaccine attitudes, beliefs, and information sources among parents of exempt and vaccinated children...
Nonmedical exemptions to school immunization requirements: secular trends and association of state policies with pertussis incidenceSaad B Omer
Department of International Health, Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
JAMA 296:1757-63. 2006..States should examine their exemption policies to ensure control of pertussis and other vaccine-preventable diseases...
Geographic clustering of nonmedical exemptions to school immunization requirements and associations with geographic clustering of pertussisSaad B Omer
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North WolfeStreet, Room E5537, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:1389-96. 2008..7, 95% confidence interval: 2.2, 3.3). Geographic pockets of vaccine exemptors pose a risk to the whole community. In addition to monitoring state-level exemption rates, health authorities should be mindful of within-state heterogeneity...
Immunization safety in US print media, 1995-2005Hamidah Hussain
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Pediatrics 127:S100-6. 2011..To identify and describe vaccine safety in US newspaper articles...
Availability of litigation as a public health tool for firearm injury prevention: comparison of guns, vaccines, and motor vehiclesJon S Vernick
Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1991-7. 2007..The absence of both litigation and product safety rules for firearms is a potentially dangerous combination for the public's health...
Prenatal immunization education the pediatric prenatal visit and routine obstetric careAnn Marie Navar
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:211-3. 2007....
Attitudes and beliefs of parents concerned about vaccines: impact of timing of immunization informationKirsten S Vannice
National Vaccine Program Office, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, USA
Pediatrics 127:S120-6. 2011..To determine if giving vaccine-information materials before the 2-month vaccination visit to mothers with concerns about vaccine safety positively changed their attitudes and beliefs about vaccine safety...
Disparities in preschool immunization coverage associated with maternal ageDaniel A Salmon
Institute for Vaccine Safety and Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Hum Vaccin 5:557-61. 2009..Classification tree analysis suggested that maternal age is the most important factor associated with vaccine coverage. More research is needed to determine the reasons for underimmunization of children born to young mothers...
Support for immunization registries among parents of vaccinated and unvaccinated school-aged children: a case control studyRobert W Linkins
Thailand Ministry of Public Health US CDC Collaboration, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention previously at National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
BMC Public Health 6:236. 2006....
Compulsory vaccination and conscientious or philosophical exemptions: past, present, and futureDaniel A Salmon
Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
Lancet 367:436-42. 2006..These factors should be considered when compulsory vaccinations are being introduced or immunisation laws refined. Lessons learned from compulsory vaccination could be useful to other public-health programmes...
Impact of addition of philosophical exemptions on childhood immunization ratesJoseph W Thompson
Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:194-201. 2007..This retrospective study conducted in 2006 describes the impact of philosophical exemption legislation in Arkansas...
Fixed vs random effects meta-analysis in rare event studies: the rosiglitazone link with myocardial infarction and cardiac deathJonathan J Shuster
Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Stat Med 26:4375-85. 2007..0, 1.0). For the Rosiglitazone example, random effects analysis, where all studies receive the same weight, is the superior choice over fixed effects, where two large studies dominate...
Ethics, pandemics, and the duty to treatHeidi Malm
Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, 6525 N Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626, USA
Am J Bioeth 8:4-19. 2008..Ultimately, it argues that none of the defenses is currently sufficient to ground the kind of duty that would be needed in a pandemic. It concludes by sketching some practical recommendations in that regard...
Measuring immunization coverage among preschool children: past, present, and future opportunitiesDaniel A Salmon
Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32608, USA
Epidemiol Rev 28:27-40. 2006..Future opportunities and challenges for measuring immunization coverage at the local, state, and national levels are explored...
