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1. Positive Strategies for Working with Vaccine Hesitation
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By Katy Casselman, MPH Cand | October 18, 2017
Research Assistant, dfusionFall has begun. You know what that means: it’s flu season!
Are your students, clients and patients going to get their flu vaccine this year? There’s a good chance they won’t. In the 2015-16 season, the CDC reported that only 42% of adults, and 59% of children 6 months to 17 years, got their flu vaccine. Part of this reluctance may stem from the larger social movement and controversy within the public health and medical fields, vaccine hesitancy.
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2. HPV Vaccine: What About the Boys?
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By William Spatafora | June 22, 2015
MPH Student, Tulane University | 2015 Kirby Summer Intern, ETR“Why? He’s a boy.”
These were the first words out of my cousin’s mouth last month when I asked if her 12-year-old son had been vaccinated against HPV. “Isn’t the HPV vaccine given just to girls, to protect against cervical cancer?”
- By William Spatafora
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