PUBLISHED: 2004
CATEGORY: Health care providers
TYPE: External Link Measuring up : results from the national immunization coverage survey, 2002
Describes the results of a telephone survey that determined whether children in Canada were immunized according to the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) schedule for routine immunization.
Corporate Authors: Public Health Agency of Canada
Journal Issue: 5
Journal Title: Canada Communicable Disease Report
Journal Volume: 30
Publisher: Public Health Agency of Canada
Pubmed: 15035404
PUBLISHED: 2004
CATEGORY: Health care providers
TYPE: External Link Population-based impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in young children
Determines the population impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on pneumococcal-related diseases.
Authors: Peohling K et al.
Journal Issue: 3
Journal Title: Pediatrics
Journal Volume: 114
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
Pubmed: 15342850
PUBLISHED: 2004
CATEGORY: Health care providers
TYPE: External Link Thimerosal exposure in infants and developmental disorders : a prospective cohort study in the United Kingdom does not support a causal association
Describes research that tested a large United Kingdom population-based cohort to find out whether there is any evidence to justify concerns that exposure to mercury damages young children.
Authors: Andrews N et al.
Journal Issue: 3
Journal Title: Pediatrics
Journal Volume: 114
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
Pubmed: 15342824
PUBLISHED: 2003
CATEGORY: Health care providers
TYPE: External Link Acellular pertussis vaccine for adolescents (CPS)
Gives the Canadian Pediatric Society’s position on pertussis vaccinations for adolescents.
Authors: Halperin S.
Journal Issue: 6
Journal Title: Pediatrics & Child Health
Journal Volume: 8
Publisher: Pulsus
PUBLISHED: 2003
CATEGORY: Health care providers, Parents, Adults
TYPE: External Link Allied Vaccine Group
Comprised of websites dedicated to presenting valid scientific information about the sometimes confusing subject of vaccines.
Corporate Authors: Allied Vaccine Group
Publisher: Allied Vaccine Group
PUBLISHED: 2003
CATEGORY: Health care providers
TYPE: External Link Autism and thimerosal-containing vaccines: lack of consistent evidence for an association
Compared the prevalence/incidence of autism in California, Sweden, and Denmark with average exposures to thimerosal-containing vaccines.
Authors: Stehr-Green P et al.
Journal Issue: 2
Journal Title: American Journal of Preventative Medicine
Journal Volume: 25
Publisher: Elsevier
Pubmed: 12880876
PUBLISHED: 2003
CATEGORY: Parents, Adults
TYPE: PDFCall for a whooping cough booster shot for adults
A personal story about an adult case of pertussis (whooping cough). The author calls for an adult booster shot to be made available so that parents will not unknowlingly pass this illness onto their children.
Authors: Walchuk BJ
Corporate Authors: Canadian Coalition for Immunization Awareness & Promotion
Publisher: Canadian Coalition for Immunization Awareness & Promotion
PUBLISHED: 2003
CATEGORY: Health care providers
TYPE: External Link Canada's first universal varicella immunization program : lessons from Prince Edward Island
Describes the first universal varicella immunization program in Canada.
Authors: Sweet L et al.
Journal Issue: 1
Journal Title: Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology
Journal Volume: 14
Publisher: Pulsus
PUBLISHED: 2003
CATEGORY:
TYPE: PDFConférence de concertation sur la coqueluche
Journal Issue: Supp. 3
Journal Title: Relevé des maladies transmissibles au Canada
Journal Volume: 29
Pubmed: 14558307
PUBLISHED: 2003
CATEGORY:
TYPE: External Link Déclaration sur le thimérosal
Fournit des recommandations sur l’utilisation des vaccins homologués au Canada qui contiennent du thimérosal, un agent de conservation à base de mercure.
Corporate Authors: Comité consultatif national de l'immunisation
Journal Issue: ACS-1
Journal Title: Relevé des maladies transmissibles au Canada
Journal Volume: 29
Publisher: Agence de la santé publique du Canada
Pubmed: 12632795