In Need of a Booster: How to Improve Childhood Vaccination Coverage in Canada

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Page Title:In Need of a Booster: How to Improve Childhood Vaccination Coverage in Canada – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:In Need of a Booster: How to Improve Childhood Vaccination Coverage in Canada
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/need-booster-how-improve-childhood-vaccination-coverage-canada/
Published Date:April 27, 2017
Accessed Date:February 14, 2025


A vocal few Canadians hold anti-vaccine views, but they are not the main reason for insufficient childhood vaccination coverage across Canada, finds a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “In Need of a Booster: How to Improve Childhood Vaccination Coverage in Canada,” authors Colin Busby, Aaron Jacobs and Ramya Muthukumaran, suggest that a much more sensible strategy to reverse falling vaccine rates among Canadian children would be to target parents classified as “fence-sitters” – those who partially but  not fully immunize their children.

Pour lire ce rapport en français, cliquez ici.

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