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For Adults : General
- The Allied Vaccine Group is a collection of
websites dedicated to presenting valid scientific information about
vaccines. Its members present vaccine information based on scientific
research, followed by honest disclosure of the research results. The
Vaccine Page is a member.
- A website aimed at 100% Immunization for Seniors has been created by the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. The primary goal of the 100% Immunization Campaign is to ensure that all older adults are immunized against influenza and pneumococcal disease, including residents of nursing facilities and assisted living environments.
- The CDC National Immunization Information Hotline offers live, trained specialists to give each caller individualized attention. The phone number (for English) is 1-800-232-2522 and, for Spanish, 1-800-232-0233. There is also a TTY line, 1-800-243-7889. The website itself gives much information and is quite easy to navigate.
- Guía Práctica de Vacunación is a Spanish-language site that gives information about vaccines and infectious diseases to health care professionals, nurses, teachers, students, parents and the public. The site is produced and maintained by Dr. Carlos Kohler, Director of Preventive Medicine, City of Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Along with much other information, it provides country-by-country vaccination schedules for Western Hemisphere nations.
- HealthCentral.com maintains an Immunization
and Vaccines Center that is newsy and well documented.
Columns by Dr. Dean Edell and others explore the ongoing
immunization controversies.
- Healthy
Living - Immunisation is a section of The Better Health
Channel, a product of the State Government of Victoria,
Australia. A document with many links, it leads to details on
each vaccine-preventable disease, as well as to official
information on The Victorian Child Health Record.
- History of Vaccination - Vaccines and vaccination
have a long history, dating back to Edward Jenner and even before. Several websites have
addressed that history, some in a very brief way and others in more detail. From the
former category to the latter, here are two recommended sites: Vaccines - How and
Why (from Access Excellence Classic Collection); The legacy of Edward Jenner (from the
Archives of The British Medical Journal).
- History of Vaccination 2The World Health Organization (WHO) has a fairly complete story on vaccines from then to now, broken down into time periods.
- How Vaccines Work is a simple, direct statement from the National Partnership for Immunization. It covers the bases adequately in just six PDF pages.
- Immunization At A Glance is a handy page of the World Bank website that gets at the key issues, beginning with the question, Why Is Immunization of High Priority?
- The Immunization Education Program (IEP) is a public-private partnership between the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) and the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (PA AAP). It is of particular value for state-specific information.
- The
Institute For Vaccine Safety (IVS) at Johns Hopkins University draws on all the
resources of that institution to provide a forum for the rational discussion of vaccine
safety issues, based on IVS' own research. Newly-produced, the website is in a formative
stage (as is the Institute), but already promises to be of extreme value to parents, other
adults, practitioners, researchers and the responsible media.
- NPI,
the National Partnership for Immunization, promotes
immunization across the human life span. NPI is a joint
program of National Healthy Mothers, the Healthy Babies
Coalition and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
- The National Centre for Immunisation Research (NCIRS)" was established at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, by Australia's National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in August 1997, to carry out research and give independent expert advice about all aspects of diseases which can be prevented by vaccination, particularly in children.
- The
National Network for Immunization Information provides the
public and other groups with up-to-date, scientifically valid
information related to immunization to help them understand
the issues and to facilitate informed decision making. NNII
provides Immunization NewsBriefs, an electronic clipping
service for news on immunizations and vaccines. This free
subscription is delivered to your e-mail address three
mornings each week. The
National Network for Immunization Information is a member
of the Allied Vaccine Group.
- Overview of Vaccine Safety is a page from the CDC National Immunization Program website. It carries comprehensive information on vaccine safety before and after licensing of a new vaccine, and offers sections on Improvements in Vaccine Safety and on The Future of Vaccine Safety.
- State-by-state
mandates on
vaccine-preventable diseases can now be readily found on a new
online resource offered by the Immunization
Action Coalition (IAC). Included is information compiled
by IAC on state mandates for hepatitis B and varicella
prevention. The web page also links to information on state
mandates for DTP, MMR, polio, and Hib vaccination, reprinted
from "State Immunization Requirements 1998-1999" by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This
information will be updated when CDC revises its publication.
- Vaccination
Sites: Francophone is a French vaccine page (with no
English version available). It is a quite thorough listing of
all such sites based on a MeSH search.
- Vaccine
Manufacturers is a list maintained by The University of
Manchester in England. It's as complete as any we have found.
- Vaccine Research Fact Sheets and Brochures is a page from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases website that lists reports and press releases on vaccines dating back to 1995. It's a resource of value to each of The Vaccine Page's target audiences.
- Vaccine
Safety Forum is a report of two forums on vaccine safety issues, one held in 1995, the
other in 1996. The report was reviewed by a group other than the authors, according to
procedures approved by a Report Review Committee of members of the National Academy of
Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. For those
interested in vaccine safety, the report remains relevant today.
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