School Requirements

• Back-to-School immunizations (exit)
• School and Childcare Vaccination Surveys (coverage rates)
• CDC Childcare and School Vaccination Requirements

State Requirements

• State Immunization Laws Database (last updated May 29, 2009)
  This tool contains results from a 50-state legislative review of laws requiring assessment of vaccination status and vaccine administration for healthcare workers and patients/residents.
• www.immunize.org/laws/ (exit)
  Lists vaccine-preventable diseases, and then shows state mandates on immunization requirements
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Exemptions & Consent Forms

Given the increasing number of states allowing philosophical exemptions to vaccines, at some point we are going to be forced to decide whether it is our inalienable right to catch and transmit potentially fatal infections 

• Fatal Exemption: Relationship Between Vaccine Exemptions and Rates of Disease
  Dr. Paul Offit's Commentary as published in Wall Street Journal (Jan. 2007)
• Are VISs "informed consent" forms?

Note: Check with your local or state health department for your state medical consent law to determine if there are any specific informed consent requirements relating to immunization.

HIPAA

• HIPAA and Public Health Fact Sheet
• FAQs about HIPAA and AFIX and VFC
• Immunization Registries and HIPAA
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