{"id":1917,"date":"2024-08-06T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2024-08-06T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:06:07","slug":"august-is-national-immunization-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"August is National Immunization Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Each August, <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/events\/niam\/index.html. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/events\/niam\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"0\">National Immunization Awareness Month<\/a> (NIAM) is observed nationwide to promote the importance of vaccinations for people of all ages and backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Vaccines have dramatically changed medicine over the last century. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaaap.org\/immunizations\/\">Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics<\/a> reports that before vaccines, parents in the United States could expect that every year:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Polio would paralyze 10,000 children.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Pertussis (whooping cough) would kill 8,000 infants.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Measles would infect about 4 million children, killing about 500.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Rubella (German measles) would cause birth defects and intellectual disabilities in as many as 20,000 newborns.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Diphtheria would be one of the most common causes of death in school-aged children.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">A bacterium called Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) would cause meningitis in 15,000 children, leaving many with permanent brain damage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK459331\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">2024 Statpearls entry on Immunization<\/a>,\u00a0 \u201cvaccination is vital to public health. Disease prevention has been proven to prolong life expectancy and improve quality of life. As antivaccination movements gain traction, diseases once thought to be eradicated or nearly eradicated have had significant outbreaks. Unfortunately, preventive measures such as vaccines are often overlooked by primary care providers and patients. For children, parents often do not know the appropriate schedule for vaccines, and therefore are often unaware of when their children are behind on vaccinations. Another common reason for missed vaccination is missed appointments for various reasons. Patient recall and reminder systems have been created and shown significant improvement in increasing vaccination compliance rates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">More information is available at the <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/events\/niam\/index.html. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/events\/niam\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"3\">CDC NIAM<\/a> web page including <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/parents\/schedules\/index.html. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/parents\/schedules\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"4\">Vaccine Schedules<\/a> and strategies to help <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/partners\/routine-immunizations-lets-rise.html. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/partners\/routine-immunizations-lets-rise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"5\">encourage Immunizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Emory University and Healthcare users can access the point of care tool, DynaMed for additional resources on Immunizations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www-dynamed-com.proxy.library.emory.edu\/prevention\/immunizations-in-adults\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">Adults<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www-dynamed-com.proxy.library.emory.edu\/prevention\/immunizations-in-children-and-adolescents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">Children and Adolescents<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www-dynamed-com.proxy.library.emory.edu\/prevention\/immunizations-in-patients-with-immunocompromise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"8\"> Immunocompromised<\/a> individuals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1918\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/files\/2024\/08\/ai_immunization.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1918\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1918\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/files\/2024\/08\/ai_immunization-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/files\/2024\/08\/ai_immunization-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/files\/2024\/08\/ai_immunization-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/files\/2024\/08\/ai_immunization-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/files\/2024\/08\/ai_immunization.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Generated with Microsoft CoPilot AI \u2219 August 6, 2024 at 11:48 AM<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each August, National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) is observed nationwide to promote the importance of vaccinations for people of all ages and backgrounds. Vaccines have dramatically changed medicine over the last century. The Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics reports that before vaccines, parents in the United States could expect that every year: <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/?p=1917\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1431,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-awareness-month"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/files\/2024\/08\/ai_immunization.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/whscl-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}