Vaccination protects the individual while also reducing opportunities for infection to spread through the community.
What is community protection?
Checking the immunization registry, identifying missing doses, and connecting a family with services are examples of this function.
What is care coordination?
A pharmacy offers evening vaccination appointments after learning parents cannot miss work. This is an example of this approach.
Upstream Thinking
Protection produced when a person’s own immune system responds to a vaccine.
What is active immunity?
An occurrence of disease exceeding what is normally expected in a population or place.
What is an outbreak?
Pharmacists should monitor diseases circulating locally so they can provide these timely, population-specific recommendations.
What are vaccine recommendations?
When a pharmacist cannot administer a needed childhood vaccine, this action helps ensure the child still receives it.
What is making a referral?
Protection received through transferred antibodies, such as maternal antibodies passed to an infant.
What is passive immunity?
Epidemiologists initially describe an outbreak according to these three characteristic
What are person, place, and time?
Listening without judgment and asking open-ended questions should occur before offering this.
What is vaccine counseling or education?
When enough people are immune that disease transmission is reduced, indirectly protecting susceptible people.
What is community immunity or herd immunity?
The proportion of an at-risk population that becomes ill during an outbreak.
What is the attack rate?
A parent’s concern about vaccines and autism should be addressed with empathy and this type of trustworthy information.
What is evidence-based information?
Forty of 200 people exposed at an event become ill. This is the attack rate.
What is 20%?
This CDC communication framework means Share, Highlight, Address, Remind, and Explain.
What is the SHARE approach
This measure compares illness among people exposed to a suspected source with illness among those who were not exposed.
What is the relative risk?