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Towards Eliminating Nonmedical Vaccination Exemptions Among School-Age Children
The increase in childhood vaccine hesitancy and corresponding use of nonmedical exemptions to abstain from vaccination has deleteriously impacted the public’s health. This has many in the field calling for widespread elimination of nonmedical school-entry exemptions, as has been done in six states t...
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Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8982917/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35402928 http://dx.doi.org/10.32481/djph.2022.03.014 |
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author | Goldstein, Neal D. Suder, Joanna S. |
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description | The increase in childhood vaccine hesitancy and corresponding use of nonmedical exemptions to abstain from vaccination has deleteriously impacted the public’s health. This has many in the field calling for widespread elimination of nonmedical school-entry exemptions, as has been done in six states to date: West Virginia, Mississippi, California, New York, Maine, and Connecticut. By eliminating nonmedical exemptions, vaccination rates can be improved, with the corresponding decline in vaccine-preventable disease incidence. Yet the path towards widespread adoption of these policies presents legislative and judicial implications which evolve with the changing political landscape. In this this article, we discuss legislative actions concerning the expansion of exemptions, whether the widespread elimination of nonmedical exemptions would be effective from a practical and legal end, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced such legislation, with specific focus on Delaware. |
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spelling | pubmed-89829172022-04-08 Towards Eliminating Nonmedical Vaccination Exemptions Among School-Age Children Goldstein, Neal D. Suder, Joanna S. Dela J Public Health Article The increase in childhood vaccine hesitancy and corresponding use of nonmedical exemptions to abstain from vaccination has deleteriously impacted the public’s health. This has many in the field calling for widespread elimination of nonmedical school-entry exemptions, as has been done in six states to date: West Virginia, Mississippi, California, New York, Maine, and Connecticut. By eliminating nonmedical exemptions, vaccination rates can be improved, with the corresponding decline in vaccine-preventable disease incidence. Yet the path towards widespread adoption of these policies presents legislative and judicial implications which evolve with the changing political landscape. In this this article, we discuss legislative actions concerning the expansion of exemptions, whether the widespread elimination of nonmedical exemptions would be effective from a practical and legal end, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced such legislation, with specific focus on Delaware. Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association 2022-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8982917/ /pubmed/35402928 http://dx.doi.org/10.32481/djph.2022.03.014 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/The journal and its content is copyrighted by the Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association (Academy/DPHA). This DJPH site, its contents, and its metadata are licensed under Creative Commons License - CC BY-NC-ND. (Please click to read (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) common-language details on this license type, or copy and paste the following into your web browser: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Images are NOT covered under the Creative Commons license and are the property of the original photographer or company who supplied the image. Opinions expressed by authors of articles summarized, quoted, or published in full within the DJPH represent only the opinions of those authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the Academy/DPHA or the institution with which the authors are affiliated. |
spellingShingle | Article Goldstein, Neal D. Suder, Joanna S. Towards Eliminating Nonmedical Vaccination Exemptions Among School-Age Children |
title | Towards Eliminating Nonmedical Vaccination Exemptions Among School-Age Children |
title_full | Towards Eliminating Nonmedical Vaccination Exemptions Among School-Age Children |
title_fullStr | Towards Eliminating Nonmedical Vaccination Exemptions Among School-Age Children |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards Eliminating Nonmedical Vaccination Exemptions Among School-Age Children |
title_short | Towards Eliminating Nonmedical Vaccination Exemptions Among School-Age Children |
title_sort | towards eliminating nonmedical vaccination exemptions among school-age children |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8982917/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35402928 http://dx.doi.org/10.32481/djph.2022.03.014 |
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