Improving Adolescent Immunization Coverage: The Time to Act Is Now

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2017-11
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Adolescent immunization rates continue to lag far behind infant immunization rates and millions of adolescents remain unprotected from serious and potentially deadly diseases. Adolescent Immunization: Understanding Challenges and Framing Solutions for Healthcare Providers, a whitepaper issued by the UNITY Consortium identifies best practices and common elements among successful adolescent immunization initiatives. The whitepaper, a collaboration of the group’s members, liaisons and invited experts, outlines the INSPECT(Immunization Neighborhood, Sharing, Platform, Educate, Champions and Talk) Imperatives, a call to action urging healthcare providers to increase adolescent immunization coverage rates by improving in one or more of the following areas: (1) Access -maximize opportunities for vaccination and avoid missed opportunities; (2) Education - educate parents and teens to further understanding of vaccines and to elevate prioritization; (3) Advocacy – guide healthcare providers to make confident, concise recommendations for all CDC-recommended adolescent vaccines, along with developing immunization champions who advocate for adolescent immunization within their practice or network; (4) Systems - advance technology, including the use of electronic immunization information systems (IIS), implement standing orders and other tools that improve efficiencies; and (5) Measurement - improve knowledge (and dissemination) of provider and practice progress on meeting adolescent immunization goals (e.g. benchmarking, performance reports).

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Klein, J., Tan, L. (L. J. ), & Zimet, G. D. (2017). Improving Adolescent Immunization Coverage: The Time to Act Is Now. Journal of Adolescent Health, 61(5), 541–543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.08.020
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