Immunization: Vaccine Information Toolkit

• Children birth to 6 years (PDF)
• Children 7 to 18 years (PDF)
• Children 4 months to 18 years who start late or are more than 1 month behind (PDF)
• Adults (PDF)

Why immunizations are important

• Stories of Vaccine Preventable Diseases
• Immunization Action Coalition (IAC): Vaccines Work! CDC Statistics Demonstrate Dramatic Declines In Vaccine-Preventable Disease When Compared with the Pre-Vaccine Era (PDF)
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Vaccine Safety: The Facts
• IAC: Clear Answers and Smart Advice about Your Baby’s Shots

Reasons for the immunization schedule

• AAP: Multiple Vaccinations At One Time
• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP): Too Many Vaccines? What You Should Know

Vaccine safety

• AAP: Questions and Answers About Vaccine Ingredients
• CHOP: Aluminum in Vaccines: What You Should Know
• Be There for Your Child During Shots
• IAC: After the Shots…What to Do If Your Child has Discomfort (PDF)

Understanding parental responsibility

IAC: Personal Belief Exemptions For Vaccination Put People At Risk

Wisconsin school immunization requirements

• Wisconsin School Immunization Requirements Booklet, P-44545 (PDF)
• Student Immunization Law: Age/Grade Requirements, P-44021 (Multiple languages)  

Resource guide for parents

IAC: Reliable Sources of Immunization Information: Where to go to find answers!

Vaccines derived from fetal cell lines

Vatican Statement on Vaccines Derived from Aborted Human Fetuses

Talking points and strategies for use with vaccine-hesitant parents

• AAP: Talking With Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
• IAC: Need help responding to vaccine-hesitant parents?
• Parental Refusal Form

Websites

• CDC
• IAC
• AAP
• AAFP
• Johns Hopkins Institute of Vaccine Safety

Journal articles

• Ball LK, Evans G, Bostrom A. Risky business: challenges in vaccine risk communication. Pediatrics. 1998; 101:453-458.
• Dias M, Marcuse EK. When parents resist immunizations. Contemp Pediatr. 2000; 17:75-86.
• Offit PA, Quarles J, Gerber MA, et al. Addressing parents’ concerns: do multiple vaccines overwhelm or weaken the infant’s immune system? Pediatrics. 2002; 109:124-129.
• Offit PA, Jew RK. Addressing parents’ concerns: do vaccines contain harmful preservatives, adjuvants, additives, or residuals? Pediatrics. 2003; 112:1394-1397.
• Diekema DS, and American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Bioethics. Responding to parental refusals of immunization of children. Pediatrics. 2005; 115:1428-1431.

Books

• Vaccines: What You Should Know by Paul Offit, MD, and Louis Bell, MD, 2003.
• Vaccines by Stanley Plotkin, MD, and Water Orenstein, MD, 2004.
• Autism’s False Prophets by Paul Offit, MD, 2008.
• Red Book by AAP, 2009.
• The Vaccine Handbook: A Practical Guide for Clinicians by Gary Marshall, MD, 2010.
• Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (the “Pink Book”) by CDC, 2011.