American Journal of Infection Control
November 2015 Volume 43, Issue 11, p1147-1268, e67-e81
http://www.ajicjournal.org/current

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Influenza vaccination of health care personnel: Experiences with the first year of a national data collection effort
Elizabeth J. Kalayil, Samantha B. Dolan, Megan C. Lindley, Faruque Ahmed
p1154–1160
Published online: July 30 2015
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The purpose of this project was to evaluate a standardized measure of health care personnel (HCP) influenza vaccination during the first year of implementation. The measure requires acute care hospitals to gather vaccination status data from employees, licensed independent practitioners (LIPs), and adult students/trainees and volunteers. The evaluation included a hospital sampling frame stratified by 4 United States Census Bureau Regions and hospital bed count. The hospitals were selected within strata using simple random sampling and the probability proportional to size method, without replacement.

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Social and political determinants of vaccine hesitancy: Lessons learned from the H1N1 pandemic of 2009-2010
Gustavo S. Mesch, Kent P. Schwirian
p1161–1165
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Public acceptance of vaccination programs is essential for vaccine preventable diseases. However, increasing sectors of the population have expressed hesitancy about participating in such programs, leading to the re-emergence of vaccine preventable diseases. In this study we rely on a recreancy hypothesis to test the association between confidence in the government and local hospitals and the willingness to take the vaccine.