Health Education On Immunization
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Health education on immunization. Immunization prevents deaths every year in all age groups from diseases like diphtheria tetanus pertussis whooping cough influenza and measles. As health care providers patients look to nurses for guidance. There is a lot of information and misinformation regarding immunizations and vaccines.
Informed patients working together with their healthcare providers are the key players in keeping themselves and their children healthy and protecting the health of the public. For bulk purchases contact pedagogy cps ca. You call the shots.
Designed to help health care professionals provide accurate and complete information about immunization. Full text full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Sign in and out at any time within a 6 month term of completion.
Developed and supported by the department of national defence and the public health agency of canada. Learn at your own pace. For additional information refer to the cdc s immunization schedules for children birth to 18 years old and adults 19 years and older.
Physicians nurses health educators pharmacists and other healthcare professionals are invited to apply for continuing education credits contact hours when available. Use these resources to help educate and advise patients and their families to help them make the best possible decisions using all available information. Materials that can be used to educate patients.
An additional 1 5 million deaths could be avoided however if global vaccination coverage improves. Immunization or immunisation is the process by which an individual s immune system becomes fortified against an agent known as the immunogen. It is one of the most successful and cost effective public health interventions.