BACKGROUND AND AIM: Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), a DNA virus with a human-only reservoir, is a worldwide public health problem. Approximately 45.0% of the world’s population is considered to live in areas of high endemicity with a lifetime risk of infection of more than 60.0%. The present study aimed to assess the level of understanding and awareness about Hepatitis B immunization among the first a...

To the Editor: Health care professionals have expressed concerns about the quality and veracity of information individuals receive from Internet-based sources. One area of controversy is the use of Internet sites to communicate information on immunization. YouTube is a video-sharing Internet Web site created in 2005 that provides free video streaming. It allows users to share multimedia clips t...

Vaccination is critical to minimize serious illness and death from COVID-19. Yet uptake of COVID-19 vaccines remains highly variable, particularly among marginalized communities. This article shares lessons learned four UNICEF interventions that supported Governments generate acceptance demand for in Zambia, Iraq, Ghana, India. In community rapid assessment provided invaluable real-time insight...

Every day across the United States, family physicians wrestle with how to best communicate to patients the clear benefits and potential harms of recommended vaccinations. When the current childhood immunization schedule is followed, it is estimated that 42,000 deaths and 20 million cases of disease are prevented annually.1 Additionally, from 2001 to 2010, vaccine use derived net savings of near...

While correlations between maternal education and child health have been observed in diverse parts of the world, the causal pathways explaining how maternal education improves child health remain far from clear. Using data from the nationally representative India Human Development Survey of 2004-5, this analysis examines four possible pathways that may mediate the influence of maternal educatio...