Department of Philosophy, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA.
Department of Foundational Medical Studies, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.
J Sch Nurs. 2022 Oct;38(5):459-466. doi: 10.1177/1059840520970886. Epub 2020 Nov 6.
Schools and school districts are key to U.S. vaccination policies: They communicate immunization enrollment requirements and enforce them during registration. This article presents a mixed-methods study of how Michigan's 537 districts communicate about vaccine mandates through public-facing websites. It reports the results of a qualitative analysis ( = 50) of websites from Southeast Michigan and a quantitative analysis of all ( = 537) Michigan's district websites. School district websites engage in diverse health promotion practices surrounding immunization, from encouraging vaccination to neutral messaging and to encouraging exemptions. Most provide scant immunization information and few promote the importance of immunization for individual and community health. We recommend that school nurses, district staff, and health authorities collaborate to ensure that school district communication promotes immunization and does not promote nonmedical exemptions. This can lead schools to embrace immunization as an essential activity for rather than as an unwelcome requirement imposed by outside agents.
它们沟通免疫接种登记要求，并在注册时执行这些要求。本文采用混合方法研究了密歇根州的 537 个学区如何通过面向公众的网站传达疫苗接种规定。它报告了对密歇根州东南部的 50 个学区网站进行定性分析和对所有 537 个密歇根州学区网站进行定量分析的结果。学区网站围绕免疫接种开展了各种健康促进实践，从鼓励接种疫苗到中性信息传递再到鼓励豁免。大多数网站提供的免疫接种信息很少，很少有网站宣传免疫接种对个人和社区健康的重要性。我们建议学校护士、学区工作人员和卫生当局合作，确保学区的沟通促进免疫接种，而不是促进非医疗豁免。这可以使学校将免疫接种视为一项必要的活动，而不是外部机构强加的不受欢迎的要求。
