| Summary: | One of the challenges for public health in the 21st is reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparities, domestically and globally. Infectious diseases in childhood can lead to complications, disability, and death. Protecting all children from vaccine-preventable diseases is a public health mandate, requiring the elimination of disparities that put some children at higher risk. Childhood immunization is a proven public health intervention that protects our nation and our children. This session of Grand Rounds explores ways that immunization efforts have served to reduce disparities in childhood infectious diseases, demonstrating an effective and cost-effective tool for advancing health equity. Vaccines protect both the people who receive them and those with whom they come in contact. Vaccines are responsible for the control of many infectious diseases that were once common in the United States and around the world. Vaccine-preventable diseases have a costly impact, resulting from doctor's visits, hospitalizations, and premature deaths. Childhood immunization as a tool to address health disparities [streaming video] -- US immunization program: successful reduction in racial and ethnic disparities in vaccination coverage among young children [PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation by Chesley Richards, p. 1-14] -- Progress toward eliminating hepatitis A disease in the United States [PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation by Trudy V. Murphy, p. 15-32] -- Use of vaccines to reduce health disparities among American Indian and Alaska native children [PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation by Thomas Hennessy, p. 33-52] -- Immunization as a path to equity [PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation by Alan R. Hinman, p. 53-76]. Streaming video (57:45. : sd., col.). Presented by: Chesley Richards, MD, MPH, Director, Immunization Services Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC ["US immunization program: successful reduction in racial and ethnic disparities in vaccination coverage among young children"]; Trudy Murphy, MD, Team Lead, Vaccine Research and Policy, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD & TB Prevention, CDC ["Progress toward eliminating hepatitis A disease in the United States"]; Tom Hennessy, MD, MPH, Director, Arctic Investigations Program, Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections. National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC ["Use of vaccines to reduce health disparities among American Indian and Alaska native children"]; Alan Hinman, MD, MPH. Director for Programs, Center for Vaccine Equity, The Task Force for Global Health ["Immunization as a path to equity"]. Facilitated by: Tanja Popovic, MD, PhD, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds, John Iskander, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds, Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Manager, Public Health Grand Rounds Recorded Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Mode of access: World Wide Web as streaming video (350 MB, total time: 57:45); and as Acrobat .pdf files: (8.55 MB, 77 p.) containing PowerPoint slides for the speakers' talks. Open-captioned.
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