Kulkarni Ansh A, Desai Raj P, Alcalá Héctor E, Balkrishnan Rajesh
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
Health Equity. 2021 Mar 16;5(1):135-139. doi: 10.1089/heq.2020.0127. eCollection 2021.
The seven-vaccine series protects infants from several preventable diseases, yet disparities in its use remain in the United States. We assessed the seven-vaccine immunization rate and its predictors in infants 19-35 months using the National Immunization Survey from 2009 to 2018. The seven-vaccine series rate was 72.8%, well short of the healthy people 2020 target of 90%. African American infants, infants born to mothers with less than high school education, and infants in families with an income below poverty were less likely to get the complete series. Disparities still exist in protecting infants from preventable diseases in the United States.
这七种疫苗组成的系列疫苗可保护婴儿免受多种可预防疾病的侵害,但在美国,其使用情况仍存在差异。我们利用2009年至2018年的全国免疫调查,评估了19至35个月大婴儿的七种疫苗免疫接种率及其预测因素。七种疫苗系列的接种率为72.8%,远低于《健康人民2020》设定的90%的目标。非裔美国婴儿、母亲受教育程度低于高中的婴儿以及家庭收入低于贫困线的婴儿完成整个系列接种的可能性较小。在美国,在保护婴儿免受可预防疾病方面仍存在差异。