Immunization Rates and Barriers to Influenza Vaccine Access in the Community Pharmacy
Journal Title: UNKNOWN - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 3
Abstract
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends the annual influenza vaccine for everyone 6 months of age and older [1]. Annual flu vaccination is the most effective way to prevent influenza and its complications. In the past, the most common setting to get the vaccine among adults has been doctor’s offices. However, the percentage of people vaccinated against influenza in a non-medical setting was higher for whites (44%) compared to Hispanics (34%) [2]. Non-medical places of influenza vaccination include pharmacies, stores, workplace and schools [3]. Pharmacists’ role as immunization providers is growing. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that pharmacists administered approximately 22% of the 2010-11 influenza adult vaccinations [4]. Currently, pharmacists are providing immunization against influenza in all fifty states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico [5]. In 2010, law 7 amended the Puerto Rico Pharmacy Practice Act to authorize pharmacists to immunize people eighteen years old and over against several diseases, including influenza, by protocol. This law is intended to promote preventive health services and to facilitate access to vaccines. Law 7 supports the Healthy People 2020 objectives that include increasing the percentage of adults who are vaccinated annually against seasonal influenza [6,7].
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Nashira M Rodríguez, Kyle Melin
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