Visual Culture and Health Posters

Title:: Have Your Tots Had All Their Shots?

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Description:

Despite the amazing successes of immunization programs, noncompliance with recommended vaccination schedules has prompted public health departments to continue their promotional campaigns. Opposition to immunization is particularly common within the alternative medicine community, with many practitioners denying its safety or usefulness. Such opposition has been a factor in leading many people to become more concerned about risks of immunization than the risk of developing diseases that are no longer part of everyday experience in developed nations. In order to respond to this movement, public health departments continue to develop advertising campaigns for the promotion of vaccination. This recent poster from the Vermont Department of Health uses a storybook motif with illustration and rhyming headline, "Have your tots had all their shots?" While playful in design, the message in the caption is serious: immunizations protect children from a long list of diseases including polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, influenza, rubella, measles, and mumps.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (1,005,190 Bytes)

Date Supplied:

ca. 1995

Creator:

Vermont Department of Health

Source:

Original Repository: The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection.

This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).

URL: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/

IHM Order Number: C00267

Publisher:

Vermont Department of Health

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Vermont Department of Health.

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Immunization Programs; Public Health

Visual Culture and Public Health Keywords:: Immunization

Exhibit Category:

Infectious Disease

Unique Identifier:

VCBBCR

Document Type:

Posters

Slides (photographs)

Language:

English

Format:

image/jpeg

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2004-08-13

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