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Online program prompts vaccination among vaccine-hesitant mothers

Medical Xpress

A web-based program that educates mothers about how to find reliable health information and the dangers of babies contracting vaccine-preventable illnesses was effective in persuading vaccine-hesitant mothers to vaccinate themselves and their infants, according to a study led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing.

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What Is The Best Example Of Preventive Care?

Mesa Family Physician

Here are some of the most impactful examples of preventative health care: Immunizations: The Gold Standard of Prevention Vaccinations represent perhaps the single most effective preventive care measure in medical history. They have eradicated or dramatically reduced many diseases that once caused widespread suffering and death.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

Darrell: Then I had another one that was much later in the process that was actually vaccinated, who was over 90, who had a lot of medical issues. We had a very big second surge here in November, where the first surge was really nursing home population. These are vaccinated folks who come in. We have lost so many nurses.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. They’re doing, once a day, either MD, or MP, or nurse practitioner visits in the home as well. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. Eric: Virtual or in person, for the MD?

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