Vaccine
Volume 32, Issue 37, Pages 4703-4812 (20 August 2014)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0264410X/32/37

Vaccination perceptions of school employees in a rural school district
Original Research Article
Pages 4766-4771
Janelle Macintosh, Karlen E. Luthy, Renea L. Beckstrand, Lacey M. Eden, Jennifer Orton
Abstract
Highlights
:: It is important to evaluate why school employees are not adequately vaccinated for highly virulent diseases, such as influenza and measles, mumps, and rubella.
:: Only about half of school employees in one rural Utah school district were adequately vaccinated against influenza.
:: About a third of school employees reported receiving a measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine during adulthood.
:: Even though almost half of school employees supported a vaccine mandate, no such vaccine requirement existed in the school district.
:: Public health officials, health care providers, and school administrators should collaborate to improve vaccination rates among school employees.