Partnering with Parents to Achieve Immunization Goals

FACULTY Sheldon L. Kaplan, MD Professor and Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas	Carole Moloney, RN, MSN, CPNP Instructor, Department of Pediatrics Boston University School of Medicine Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Boston Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Partnering with Parents to Achieve Immunization Goals: Tools and Strategies to Address Concerns and Dispel Myths was developed to educate participants about how clinicians can overcome barriers to vaccination and effectively communicate to parents the importance of timely and complete immunization. This program looks specifically at ways to address parents’ concerns and questions about vaccines and dispel popular misconceptions, reviews tools and resources that can be shared with parents, and discusses the use of combination vaccines and other strategies for improving compliance with immunization recommendations.

This Web archive is based on an educational program presented to health professionals during the National Immunization Conference in Dallas, Texas, in March 2009. Partnering with Parents to Achieve Immunization Goals: Tools and Strategies to Address Concerns and Dispel Myths is now available on demand through August 2010.

This educational program does not offer Continuing Medical Education (CME) or Continuing Education (CE) credit.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

•	Describe the factors that reduce compliance with childhood vaccine recommendations in the United States, especially parental concerns and objections.
•	Explain how clinicians can effectively communicate to parents the importance of timely and complete immunization while specifically addressing their concerns and questions about vaccines and dispelling popular myths.
•	Provide appropriate tools and resources that can be shared with parents when addressing vaccine questions and concerns.
•	Discuss how combination vaccines fit into the nationally recommended childhood immunization schedule and how these vaccines can increase compliance with those recommendations.
•	Explore how innovative strategies can be developed to improve compliance with vaccine recommendations and increase immunization rates in both public and private health-care settings.

In accordance with sanofi pasteur’s policies and the PhRMA^a Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals, attendance at this educational program is limited to health-care professionals.
^a PhRMA = Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

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