Vaccination coverage in the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 2005

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 595-604

  Luman, Elizabeth T ^a,e   Sablan, Mariana ^b   Anaya, Gabriel ^a   Stokley, Shannon ^a   McCauley, Mary Mason ^a   Shaw, Kate M ^a   Salazar, Angela ^a   Balajadia, Ron ^c   Chaine, Jean Paul ^c   Duncan, Richard ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b Department of Health   (Northern Mariana Islands)

^c Pacific Islands Office   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Adult vaccination; Childhood vaccination; Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; Immunization; School vaccination; Survey; Vaccination coverage

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; REGISTER; VACCINATION;

AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; MICRONESIA; PATIENT DROPOUTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 35949004574     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PHH.0000296136.71799.71     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. World Health Organization. 2004 Global immunization data. http://www.who.int/immunization_monitoring/data/GlobalImmunizationData.pdf. Accessed January 19, 2007.
2. World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Immunization. www.wpro.who.int/healthtopics/immunization/. Accessed January 19, 2007.
3. World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Proceedings From the Fifteenth Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on the Expanded Programme on Immunization and Poliomyelitis Eradication in the Western Pacific Region, Beijing, China, 8-10 June, 2005. Manila, Philippines: World Health Organization; 2005.
4. Wolfson LJ, Strebel PM, Gacic-Dobo M, et al. Has the 2005 measles mortality reduction goal been achieved? A natural history modelling study. Lancet. 2007;369:191-200.
5. World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Western Pacific Regional Plan to Improve Hepatitis B Control Through Immunization. Manila, Philippines: World Health Organization; 2003.
6. World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific. WPR/RC56.R8: measles elimination, hepatitis B control and poliomyelitis eradication. www.wpro.who.int/rcm/en/archives/rc56/rc_resolusions/wpr_rc56_r08. htm. Accessed September 10, 2007.
7. US Census Bureau, 2000 Census of Population and Housing. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Summary File: Technical Documentation. Washington, DC: US Census Bureau; 2003.
8. World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Northern Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of the. Manila, Philippines: World Health Organization; 2006. www.wpro.who.int/countries/nmi/NMI.htm. Accessed January 19, 2007.
9. Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union With the United States of America. 48 USC Chapter 17, subchapter 1. http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/48C17.txt. Accessed April 5, 2007.
10. Feasley JC, Lawrence RS, eds. Committee on health care services in the US-associated Pacific Basin, Institute of Medicine. Pacific Partnerships for Health: Charting a Course for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 1998.
11. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Haemophilus B conjugate vaccines for prevention of Haemophilus influenzae type b disease among infants and children two months of age and older: recommendations of the ACIP. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1991;40:1-7.
12. McMahon BJ, Alward WLM, Hall DB, et al. Acute hepatitis B virus infection: relation of age to the clinical expression of disease and subsequent development of the carrier state. J Infect Dis. 1985;151:599-603.
13. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A comprehensive immunization strategy to eliminate transmission of hepatitis B virus infection in the United States. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2005;54(RR-16):1-23.
14. Klein RJ, Proctor SE, Boudreault MA, Turczyn KM. Statistical Notes, Number 24: Healthy People 2010 Criteria for Data Suppression. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office; July 2002.
15. Robinson CA, Sepe SJ, Lin KF. The president's child immunization initiative-a summary of the problem and the response. Public Health Rep. 1993;108:419-425.
16. US Department of Health and Human Services. Healthy people 2010. Conference ed. Vols I & II. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2000. http://www.healthypeople.gov. Accessed September 10, 2007.
17. Orenstein WA, Hinman AR. The immunization program in the United States - the role of school immunization laws. Vaccine. 1999;17(suppl):S19-S24.
18. Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, et al. Mortality associated with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus in the United States. JAMA. 2003;289:179-186.
19. Robinson K, Baughman W, Rothrock G, et al. Epidemiology of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae infections in the United States, 1995-1998: opportunities for prevention in the conjugate vaccine era. JAMA. 2001;285:1729-1735.
20. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Interim influenza vaccination recommendations, 2004-05 influenza season. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004;53:923-924.
21. Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Recommendations regarding interventions to improve vaccination coverage in children, adolescents, and adults. Am J Prev Med. 2000;18(suppl 1):S92-S96.
22. Zimmerman RK, Raymund M, Janosky JE, Nowalk MP, Fine MJ. Sensitivity and specificity of patient self-report of influenza and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccinations among elderly outpatients in diverse patient care strata. Vaccine. 2003;21:1486-1491.
23. Mac Donald R, Baken L, Nelson A, Nichol K. Validation of self-report of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination status in elderly outpatients. Am J Prev Med. 1999;16:173-177.
24. Mangtani P, Shah A, Roberts JA. Validation of influenza and pneumococcal vaccine status in adults based on self-report. Epidemiol Infect. 2007;135:139-143.
25. Fine PEM. Herd immunity: history, theory, practice. Epidemiol Rev. 1993;15:265-302.
26. Rhodes CJ, Butler AR, Anderson RM. Epidemiology of communicable diseases in small populations. J Mol Med. 1998;76:111-116.
27. Black FL. Measles endemicity in insular populations: critical community size and its evolutionary implications. J Theor Biol. 1966;11:207-211.
28. Hyde TB, Dayan G, Langidrik JR, et al. Measles outbreak in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2003. Int J Epidemiol. 2006;35:299-306.
29. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Measles outbreak and response - Fiji, February-May 2006. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2006;55:963-966.