Americans' responses to the 2004 influenza vaccine shortage: How did the public respond to the flu vaccine shortage in 2004, and what are the implications for such potential events in the future?

Health Affairs

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 822-831

  DesRoches, Catherine M ^a   Blendon, Robert J ^a   Benson, John M ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Harvard Opinion Research Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

CONSENSUS; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG MARKETING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PUBLIC OPINION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 20044366052     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.3.822     Document Type: Review

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1. "U.S. to Import Flu Vaccine," Medicine and Health (13 December 2004): 5.
2. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Interim Influenza Vaccination Recommendations, 2004-05 Season," 22 December 2004, www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/whoshouldget.htm (1 March 2005).
3. "Estimated Influenza Vaccination Coverage among Adults and Children - United States, September 1-November 30, 2004," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 53, no. 49 (2004): 1147-1153.
4. National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2004, with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans (Hyattsville, Md.: NCHS, 2004), 81.
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6. Harvard School of Public Health/International Communications Research flu vaccine survey, 29 October-9 November 2004 (Storrs, Conn.: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, 2004).
7. The study was conducted as part of an omnibus survey; therefore, the data are not collected in a way that allows for the calculation of the response rate. However, studies have indicated that when the results from a survey with a long field period and a high response rate are compared with a survey with a field time that is similar to the Harvard School of Public Health survey, few statistically significant differences are observed between responses from the two surveys when the data are statistically reweighted. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, "Polls Face Growing Resistance, but Still Respresentative: Survey Experiment Shows," 2004, people-press.org/reports/ display.php3?ReportID=211 (19 March 2005);
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9. and R. Curtin, S. Presser, and E. Singer, "The Effects of Response Rate Changes on the Index of Consumer Sentiment," Public Opinion Quarterly 64, no. 4 (2000): 413-428.
10. Harvard School of Public Health/ICR flu vaccine survey.
11. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health poll, 2-5 December 2004 (Roper Center, 2004). Elizabeth Edwards is the wife of John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic candidate for vice president.
12. Harvard School of Public Health/ICR flu vaccine survey.
13. That survey specifically asked about the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services. Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive health care poll, 14-16 December 2004, www.harrisinteractive.com/news/newsletters/wsjhealthnews/WSJOnline_HI_Health- carePoll2004vol3_iss25.pdf (19 March 2005).
14. ABC News/Washington Post poll, 18-20 October 2004 (Roper Center, 2004).
15. Harris poll, 20-25 October 2004, www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/ index.asp?PID=524 (5 January 2005).
16. Harvard School of Public Health/ICR flu vaccine survey.
17. Harvard School of Public Health/ICR flu vaccine survey Ibid.
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19. Harvard School of Public Health/ICR flu vaccine survey.
20. Harvard School of Public Health/ICR flu vaccine survey Ibid.
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22. CDC, "Key Facts about the Flu: How to Prevent the Flu and What to Do If You Get Sick," 10 November 2004, www.cdc.gov/flu/keyfacts.htm (7 January 2005);
23. and Harvard School of Public Health flu survey.
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25. and Harvard School of Public Health/ICR flu vaccine survey.
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27. Harvard School of Public Health/ICR flu vaccine survey.
28. Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive health care poll.
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30. "New England Pushes to Find Takers for Flu Shots," Boston Globe, 12 January 2005.
31. R.D. Lasker, Redefining Readiness: Terrorism Planning through the Eyes of the Public (New York: New York Academy of Medicine, 2004).
32. T.H. Lee, "Rationing Influenza Vaccine," New England Journal of Medicine 351, no. 23 (2004): 2365-2366.
33. R.J. Blendon et al., "The Public and the Smallpox Threat," New England Journal of Medicine 348, no. 5 (2003): 426-432;
34. and Lasker, Redefining Readiness.