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Towards Equity in Immunization: The Immunization Reminders Project
High rates of vaccine coverage among populations, such as children, are
important for immunizations to provide herd immunity.a
In 2006, we found
statistically significant differences (i.e., disparities) in immunization coverage
rates between two-year-old children in the city of Saskatoon based on where they
lived.
A grant was obtained from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), in
partnership with Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC), in early 2007 to fund an
intervention to increase immunization coverage rates among young children. The
intervention, the ‘immunization reminders project’, involves contacting the
parents/guardians of 14-month-olds and 20-months olds in the Saskatoon Health
Region (SHR) who are behind in their immunizations.
Since 2007, other interventions aimed at increasing childhood immunization
coverage rates have been introduced in SHR (e.g., SHR’s Building Health Equity
Program). However, this report focuses only the effectiveness of the
‘immunization reminders project’.
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