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Rebmann T, Wilson KD, Loux T, et al. Outcomes, Approaches, and Challenges to Developing and Passing a Countywide Mandatory Vaccination Policy: St. Louis County's Experience with Hepatitis A Vaccine for Food Service Personnel. AIMS Public Health. 2016;3(1):116-130doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2016.1.116.
Rebmann, T., Wilson, K. D., Loux, T., Iqbal, A. Z., Peters, E. B., & Peavler, O. (2016). Outcomes, Approaches, and Challenges to Developing and Passing a Countywide Mandatory Vaccination Policy: St. Louis County's Experience with Hepatitis A Vaccine for Food Service Personnel. AIMS public health, 3(1), 116-130. https://doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2016.1.116
Rebmann, Terri, et al. "Outcomes, Approaches, and Challenges to Developing and Passing a Countywide Mandatory Vaccination Policy: St. Louis County's Experience with Hepatitis A Vaccine for Food Service Personnel." AIMS public health vol. 3,1 (2016): 116-130. doi: https://doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2016.1.116
Rebmann T, Wilson KD, Loux T, Iqbal AZ, Peters EB, Peavler O. Outcomes, Approaches, and Challenges to Developing and Passing a Countywide Mandatory Vaccination Policy: St. Louis County's Experience with Hepatitis A Vaccine for Food Service Personnel. AIMS Public Health. 2016 Mar 15;3(1):116-130. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2016.1.116. eCollection 2016. PMID: 29546151; PMCID: PMC5690268.
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AIMS Public Health. 2016 Mar 15;3(1):116-130. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2016.1.116. eCollection 2016.

Outcomes, Approaches, and Challenges to Developing and Passing a Countywide Mandatory Vaccination Policy: St. Louis County's Experience with Hepatitis A Vaccine for Food Service Personnel.

AIMS public health

Terri Rebmann, Kristin D Wilson, Travis Loux, Ayesha Z Iqbal, Eleanor B Peters, Olivia Peavler

Affiliations

  1. Institute for Biosecurity, Saint Louis University, College for Public Health & Social Justice, St. Louis, MO, USA.
  2. Department of Health Management and Policy, Saint Louis University, College for Public Health & Social Justice, USA.
  3. Department of Biostatistics, Saint Louis University, College for Public Health & Social Justice, USA.
  4. Center for Clinical Excellence, BJC HealthCare, St. Louis, MO.
  5. St. Louis County Department of Public Health, St. Louis, MO, USA.

PMID: 29546151 PMCID: PMC5690268 DOI: 10.3934/publichealth.2016.1.116

Abstract

In the early 1990s, St. Louis County had multiple foodservice worker-related hepatitis A outbreaks uncontrolled by standard outbreak interventions. Restaurant interest groups and the general public applied political pressure to local public health officials for more stringent interventions, including a mandatory vaccination policy. Local health departments can enact mandatory vaccination policies, but this has rarely been done. The study objectives were to describe the approach used to pass a mandatory vaccination policy at the local jurisdiction level and illustrate the outcome from this ordinance 15 years later. A case study design was used. In-depth, semi-structured interviews using guided questions were conducted in spring, 2015, with six key informants who had direct knowledge of the mandatory vaccination policy process. Meeting minutes and/or reports were also analyzed. A Poisson distribution analysis was used to calculate the rate of outbreaks before and after mandatory vaccination policy implementation. The policy appears to have reduced the number of hepatitis A outbreaks, lowering the morbidity and economic burden in St. Louis County. The lessons learned by local public health officials in passing a mandatory hepatitis A vaccination policy are important and relevant in today's environment. The experience and lessons learned may assist other local health departments when faced with the potential need for mandatory policies for any vaccine preventable disease.

Keywords: Immunization; Mandatory Vaccination; Outbreak control; Public Health Policy

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest and source of funding: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. This study was unfunded.

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