Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of linking the special supplemental program for women, infants, and children (wic) and immunization activities

Journal of Public Health Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 408-426

  Hutchins, Sonja S ^a   Rosenthal, Jorge ^a   Eason, Pamela ^b   Swint, Emmett ^a   Guerrero, Herminia ^c   Hadler, Stephen ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Policy and Commission Branch   (United States)

^c Merck Vaccine Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MASS SCREENING; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

CHICAGO; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INCOME; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 0033396964     PISSN: 01975897     EISSN: 1745655X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3343128     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Measles—United States, 1989 and First 20 Weeks of 1990,” MMWR 39 (1990): 353-55, 36163.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Measles—United States, 1990,” MMWR 40 (1991): 369-72.
3. Atkinson W. L., and Orenstein, W. A. “The Resurgence of Measles in the United States, 1989-1990,” Annu. Rev. Med. 43 (1992): 451-63.
4. Gindler, J. S., and Atkinson, W. L., Markowitz, L. E., and Hutchins, S. S. “Epidemiology of Measles in the United States in 1989 and 1990,” Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. 11 (1992): 841-46.
5. Cutts, F. T., Zell, E. R., Mason, D., Bernier, R. H., Dini, E. F., and Orenstein, W. A. “Monitoring Progress Toward US Preschool Immunization Goals,” JAMA 267 (1992): 1952-55.
6. National Vaccine Advisory Committee. “The Measles Epidemic: The Problems, Barriers and Recommendations,” JAMA 266 (1991): 154752
7. Hutchins, S. S., Gindler, J., Atkins, W. L., Mihalek, E., Ewert, D., LeBaron, C., et al. “Opportunities to Vaccinate Unvaccinated Children with Measles,” Am.]. Public Health 83 (1993): 862-67.
8. United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. “Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children: Coordination Rule: Mandates of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 1989,” Federal Register 59 (1994): 11475-11508.
9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Vaccination Coverage by Race/Ethnicity and Poverty Level among Children Aged 19-35 Months—United States,” MMWR 41 (1997): 963-68.
10. New York State Department of Health. Proceedings of the National WIC/Immunization Conference. New York, New York, 1992.
11. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Update: Measles Outbreak—Chicago, 1989,” MMWR 39 (1990): 317-19, 325-26.
12. Hutchins, S. S., Eason, P., Whittington, H., Swint, E., and Hadler, S. “Vaccination Levels of Low-Income Preschool-Aged Children Enrolled in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC),” in:Abstracts of the American Public Health Association noth Annual Meeting, November 1992.
13. National Vaccine Program Office. Disease Prevention Through Vaccine Development and Immunization: the National Vaccine Plan—1994. Atlanta, Georgia: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1994.
14. National Vaccine Program Office. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept, of Health and Human Services Publication PI IS 91-50212, 1991.
15. Robinson, C. A., Sepe, S. J., and Lin, K.F.Y. “The President’s Child Immunization Initiative—A Summary of the Problem and the Response,” Public Health Rep. 108 (1993): 419-25.
16. Hutchins, S. S., Maes, E., Gonzalez, H. F., Birkhead, G., Flatt, K., and Nourse Berg, C., “WIC Immunization Experiences: An Appropriate Setting for Immunization Services,” in: iyth National Immunization Conference Proceedings.Atlanta, Georgia: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1994, pp. 149-52.
17. Birkhead, G. S., LeBaron, C. W., Parsons, P., Grabau, J. C., Maes, E., Barr-Gale, L., et al. “The Immunization of Children Enrolled in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): The Impact of Different Strategies,” JAMA 274 (1995): 312-16.
18. Hadler, S. “Cost Benefit of Combining Antigens,” Biologicals 22 (1994): 415-18.
19. Hoekstra, E. J., LeBaron, C. W., and Mgaloeconomou, Y. “Impact of a Large-Scale Immunization Initiative in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC),” JAMA 280 (1998): 1143-83
20. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. “Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices: Programmatic Strategies to Increase Coverage by 2 Years of Age—Linkage of Immunization and WIC Services,” MMWR 45 (1996): 217-18.
21. Food and Consumer Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. WIC/NIP Coordinated Strategic Plan. Memorandum, United States Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services: 1995.
22. Senate Committee on Appropriations. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and related agencies appropriation bill, 1996, Report no. 104-145. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office: 54.