The impact of vaccines on the inequity of those living in poverty is high. Studies suggest that the vaccine programs provide the poor with both health and financial benefits. Including such equity impact in the health economic modeling of vaccines would allow policy decisions to be targeted to the most vulnerable in society. (link)

• Canton City Public Health
• Canton City School District

Studies suggest that for communities, social media including Twitter may one day help health systems and public health departments more effectively challenge vaccine misinformation, while concurrently tracking outbreaks. As more is learned about each of these approaches in isolation, research should increasingly turn to understanding how best to integrate community, family, and provider-directed approaches that may synergistically reduce the tragic consequences of vaccine-preventable disease. This combined approach is likely to prove most effective in reaching the goals of Healthy People 2020 and limiting outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases that continue to be observed in the United States. (link)

• Develop a CCPH patient/parent feedback survey to determine perceived barriers to getting kids vaccinated – Completed
• Translate survey to Spanish – Completed
• Analyze results – Completed
• Determine if a QI project is needed for messaging methods –  Completed, not necessary
• Implement community messaging based on survey results – Completed
• Re-survey CCPH patients to see if messaging was effective – assigned to Sarah Thomas – deadline 12/15/23