Tdap vaccine – AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's Blog

Vaccination Coverage rates for teens are improving across the country and in Arizona

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:48:41-07:00September 2nd, 2016|Preparedness|

Last week CDC released 2015 vaccination coverage data for teens collected through the National Immunization Surveys (NIS). These surveys are sponsored annually through the CDC, and for teens, they attempt to estimate the level of coverage for three important adolescent vaccines: Tdap, Meningococcal, and HPV vaccine. There is good news for Arizona in this year's [...]

Campaign to Get Health Care Workers Immunized

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:36-07:00March 18th, 2013|General, Prevention|

Believe it or not only 27% of health care workers are up to date with their whooping cough booster… yet health care personnel can be infected with it by their patients, and then pass it on to other patients, family, and the community. The Arizona Partnership Against Pertussis, a coalition of seventeen health care organizations [...]