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Document the effort by pharmaceutical interests, lobbies, public figures to implement a mandatory vaccine program in public schools nationwide via School Based Health Clinics
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Documentation:

Name: (Grant) School-based Adolescent Vaccination (UO1)
-Centers for Disease Control
Summary: With recently recommended and new vaccines for adolescents, developing an adolescent platform for vaccine delivery is becoming increasingly important.  This demonstration project will assist CDC evaluate the feasibility of conducting school based adolescent vaccination activities through the use of partners who engage in billing of third parties.
Link: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/IP08-006.htm
Link: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/IP08-007.htm

Name: Strategies and Models for Promoting Adolescent Vaccination for Low-Income Populations
-RAND Corporation
Summary: There is new and growing interest in adolescent immunization. Since 2005, three new vaccines for older children have been licensed in the United States and recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the majority of 13-17-year-olds have received recommended vaccines, rates remain below 2010 targets, and the coverage rates for low-income adolescents and minority youth are likely to be lower. The authors discuss barriers to expanded adolescent immunization and develop recommendations to address those barriers. Some recommendations — such as creating concrete, actionable, and active messaging for adolescents and their parents and fostering school accountability for administering vaccines — can be accomplished within the existing legal framework. Others — such as making parental consent time-enduring and administering consent through a Web portal — have tremendous potential to improve coverage rates among adolescents and children but require modernization of current consent laws.
Link: http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB577/

Website: Denver Public Health School Vaccine Information
Link: http://denverhealth.org/portal/Services/PublicHealth/ImmunizationClinic/DenversInSchoolImmunizationProject.aspx

Name: Institute of Medicine Report on Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century: National Vaccine Advisory Committee/National Vaccine Program Office Follow-up
Summary: In 2000, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report “Calling the Shots” examined the infrastructure and financing of the immunization system in the United States and recommended a substantial increase in the federal immunization grant program as well as increases in state support to strengthen the infrastructure. There have been some increases in the federal grant program but there has been little increase in state support.
Link: http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/NVAC-IOM100604.doc

Name: Partners in Access: School-Based Health Centers and Medicaid
Summary: As interest in children’s and adolescent’s health and mental health care access has grown, school-based health centers have become more commonplace in American schools. In seeking a diverse array of public and private funding sources to implement, sustain, and expand these innovative programs, communities have increasingly come to regard Medicaid as an essential component of the schoolbased health center’s financing strategy. It was logical to assume that Medicaid reimbursement would provide critically needed resources for programs that deliver services to a population likely to be covered by public insurance. But as providers, policy makers, and advocates would soon learn, the “quick fix” that was to be third-party revenue collection proved far more complicated.
Link: http://www.nasbhc.org/atf/cf/%7BCD9949F2-2761-42FB-BC7A-CEE165C701D9%7D/Funding_PartnersinAccessMedicaidreport.pdf

Name: Denver’s In-School Immunization Project: an invaluable learning experience by Judith Shlay, MD, MSPH Director
Summary: Objectives: Discuss details and timeline for implementing a school-based vaccination program, Discuss plans for evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of billing 3rd party payers for vaccines delivered in schools
Link: http://www.nasbhc.org/atf/cf/%7BCD9949F2-2761-42FB-BC7A-CEE165C701D9%7D/TAT_Denver%20School%20Immunization%20Project–Shlay.pdf

Name: Core dimensions of connectivity in public health collaboratives
Summary: A major challenge facing state and local public health agencies is how to partner with other organizations, agencies, and groups to collaboratively address goals in population health while effectively maximizing resource sharing of the partners involved. Today’s public health efforts require multiagency partnerships between both governmental and nongovernmental sectors to achieve this mission. However, the frequent reconfiguration of partnerships among government and nongovernmental agencies has left many public health managers struggling to find ways to both develop public health collaboratives and evaluate their success. In this article, we use network theory and social network analysis to outline the core dimensions of connectivity used to measure progress in public health collaboratives. Connectivity is defined as the measured interactions between partners in a collaborative such as the amount and quality of interactions and how these relationships might change over time. We also articulate how these measures fit into the overall process of measuring progress in public health collaboratives and end the article with suggestions for future research and development.
Link: http://journals.lww.com/jphmp/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2008&issue=09000&article=00017&type=abstract

Name: Logistics of Universal Childhood Influenza Vaccination
Summary: Power Point presentation by Dr. Matthew Daley elaborating the challenges of vaccinating children and adolescents with Influenza vaccine.
Link: http://www.naccho.org/topics/HPDP/infectious/upload/Daley-NACCHO-logistics-talk.ppt

Name: Colorado Association for School Based Health Care flier
Summary: Your basic Propaganda Flier for School Based Health Clinics
Link: http://www.nasbhc.org/atf/cf/%7BCD9949F2-2761-42FB-BC7A-CEE165C701D9%7D/Advocacy%20VBCO.pdf

Name: 42 USC CHAPTER 6A – PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE TITLE 42 – THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 6A – PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SUBCHAPTER XIX – VACCINES
Summary: N/A
Link: http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/authorizinglegislation.pdf

Name: Colorado Immunization Manual
Summary: S E C T I O N 1 5: Colorado Rules, Regulations, Laws
Link: http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/dc///////Immunization/immunmanual/sec15.pdf

Name: Adolescent Immunizations: Policies to Provide a Shot in the Arm for Adolescents
Summary: With multiple vaccines for adolescents recently recommended and in various stages of development, the issue of how to effectively deliver immunizations to this age group has become increasingly important. This manuscript addresses some of the primary barriers and potential public health solutions to providing vaccinations effectively to adolescents. The foreseen complexities associated with each potential solution will be noted throughout; there remain potentially unforeseen ramifications as well.
Link: http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X%2807%2900171-1/abstract

Name: New Immunization Project in Denver Schools (Radio Interview)
Summary: Ryan Warner talks with Doctors Judith Shlay, of Denver Health, and Matthew Daley, of Kaiser Permanente, about trying out a new child immunization project.
Link: http://www.kcfr.org/cgi-bin/comatters/comatters_play.asx?play=5446&type=comatters.asx