Association of Vaccine-Preventable Disease Incidence With Proposed State Vaccine Exemption Legislation

Neal D Goldstein; Jonathan Purtle; Joanna S Suder

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.4365

Association of Vaccine-Preventable Disease Incidence With Proposed State Vaccine Exemption Legislation

JAMA Pediatr. 2020 Jan 1;174(1):88-89. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.4365.

Authors

Neal D Goldstein¹, Jonathan Purtle², Joanna S Suder³

Affiliations

¹ Dornsife School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
² Dornsife School of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Policy, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
³ Civil Division, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington.

Abstract

This study evaluates the association of vaccine-preventable disease incidence with trends in the introduction of state legislation that would alter vaccine exemption laws.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Incidence
Retrospective Studies
United States / epidemiology
Vaccination / legislation & jurisprudence*
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases / epidemiology*
Vaccines / pharmacology*

Substances

Vaccines