Vaccines help our immune systems fight infections. There are several types of vaccines that protect of us from serious illness. Vaccine-preventable diseases cause long-term illness, hospitalization and even death. These modules can help us better understand what illnesses are vaccine-preventable and can provide guidance when having conversations about getting vaccinated.
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Vaccination Overview
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Influenza (Flu) Vaccine: What You Need to Know
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Hepatitis B Vaccine: What You Need to Know
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine: What You Need To Know
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A Guide to Understanding Vaccine Beliefs: Cultural Competency, Cultural Humility and CLAS
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How can I learn to be culturally appropriate?
- Access Cultural Competence Assessment Tool from the Boston Public Health Commission.
- Available resources, training and standards at Think Cultural Health.
- Learn how to help your patient/resident population and utilize training with Health Literacy Tools from the CDC.
- Cultural communication is important in your practice. Learn more about Cultural Respect from the National Institutes of Health.
A Guide to Understanding Vaccine Beliefs: Religious Cultures
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A Guide to Understanding Vaccine Beliefs: Native American Culture
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African and Black American Culture and Vaccines
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Latin American Culture
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Older Adult Culture and Vaccines Beliefs
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Resources
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Influenza (Flu) Vaccine: What You Need to Know
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Influenza Resources
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lisa Shares Her Flu Story | MyShot (Recording)
American Lung Association, The video provides insights into the significance of vaccination in preventing flu and protecting public health.
Hepatitis B Vaccine: What You Need to Know
An Introduction to Hepatitis
HEP, This resource explains the liver's essential functions and its role in overall health and metabolism.
Can Hepatitis Be Passed Through Breast Milk?
Verywellhealth, This article explains various methods of spreading hepatitis and emphasizes prevention strategies to reduce infection risk.
Hepatitis B – Vaccination of Adults
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The resource provides guidance on administering the hepatitis B vaccine, including dosage, timing and storage recommendations for health care providers.
Impact of Stigma on People Living with Chronic Hepatitis B
National Library of Medicine, This study characterizes the level and type of stigma experienced by people infected with hepatitis B virus.
What Does Your Liver Do? (Recording)
WebMD, An educational video on the liver and its use.
What You Need to Know About Hepatitis B (Recording)
Washington Department of Health, An education video on Hepatits B, its spread, signs and symptoms and testing.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine: What You Need To Know
Is RSV Dangerous in Older Adults?
Cleveland Clinic, An article on RSV and the affects it has on older adults 60 and up, its spread and prevention.
Vaccine Information Statements
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, A downloadable PDF file for current vaccines, immunization and COVID-19 vaccine fact sheets.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Information on RVS infection.
FDA Approves First Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, A press announcement of the FDA approval of the first respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for individual 60 and older.
Why is RSV Different Now Than in Past Years?
Cleveland Clinic, An educational article on the how RSV is different from the virus of years past, particularly in adults 60 and older.
CDC Recommends a Powerful New Tool to Prevent Infants from the Leading Cause of Hospitalization
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, A release on tools or immunization to assist in protecting infants from hospitalization.
Safe and Effective RSV Protein Vaccines
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Should You Get the New RSV Vaccine?
Yale Medicine, Explore how the RSV vaccine can reduce hospitalizations in older people and babies.
Use of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines in Older Adults: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, This resource highlights recommendations for RSV vaccination in older adults, stressing the need for health care provider involvement and approval.
RSV in Older Adults and Adults with Chronic Medical Conditions
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Learn about RSV and how it affects older adults.
FDA Approves New Drug to Prevent RSV in Babies and Toddlers
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Learn about Beyfortus, the monoclonal antibody approved for the prevention of RSV in neonates and infants.
A Guide to Understanding Vaccine Beliefs: Cultural Competency, Cultural Humility and CLAS
CLAS – Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility
Think Cultural Health, Learn how the concepts of CLAS can improve your organizations quality of care.
Cultural Humility Improves Patient Experiences, Health Outcomes and Hospital Readmissions
Research Triangle Institute Health Advance, Building trust through cultural humility improves patient experiences, health outcomes and hospital readmissions.
Cultural and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
Think Cultural Health, Learn about culturally and linguistically appropriate services in this introductory document.
Health Literacy Tools
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Review the new definitions of health literacy and how organizations can improve health literacy.
Improving Cultural Competence
National Library of Medicine, Explore various tools for assessing cultural competence in clinical, training and organizational settings.
A Guide to Understanding Vaccine Beliefs: Religious Cultures
Religion and Vaccine Beliefs
Sage Journals, Review this study on how attitudes and behaviors relevant to flu, MMR and HPV vaccines are influenced by philosophical, spiritual and moral beliefs.
Vaccine Refusal and Hesitancy
National Institutes of Health, Learn how health care providers can help parents make informed decisions about vaccinations for their children.
Vaccine Refusal
National Institutes of Health, This article will examine the factors contributing to parents' hesitance regarding childhood vaccinations and discuss how health care providers can offer resources and support to assist these parents.
Religions and Vaccines
National Institutes of Health, This article will explore whether different religious beliefs, are in itself, real exception for vaccination or are they a parents' excuse to avoid vaccination.
Permissible Vaccines
MuslimMed.Org, A review of the islamically permissible influenza vaccines for the 2024-2025 season.
Vaccine: What the World’s Religions Teach – Applied to Vaccines and Immune Globulins
Immunize.Org, This paper reviews the scriptural, canonical basis for religious interpretations as well as passages that support immunization.
Ethical Issues
History of Vaccines, Learn the key ethical debates related to vaccine regulation, development and use.
Religious Exemptions for Vaccine Beliefs
American Bar Association, Learn how to manage religious exemptions from vaccination mandates.
Muslim Patients
National Institutes of Health, Examine the aspects of Muslim culture and the approaches to supporting Muslim patients in health care settings.
What is Wrong with Vaccines?
National Institutes of Health, Examine the typology of religious vaccine skepticism.
Christian Science
HSE.ie, Explore the beliefs of the First Church of Christ also know as Christian Science.
Anabaptist Christian
PBS.org, Explore the beliefs and culture of the Amish.
A Guide to Understanding Vaccine Beliefs: Native American Culture
American Indian Health Disparities
National Indian Council on Aging, Learn the health disparities and SDOH of American Indian and Alaska Native elders.
Mystery and Medicine of Native Americans
The Biomedical Scientist, Learn the history of Native American medicine.
Sacred Medicines
American Indian Health Service of Chicago, Learn about tobacco, cedar, sage and sweetgrass, the four sacred medicines of Native American culture.
Traditional Healing
Stanford Medicine, Explore Alaska Native healing practices that go back over 10,000 years.
Experimentation and Mistrust
The Elm, Learn the historical and current context of medical abuse of BIPOC populations that positions science and medical advancements over human lives and safety.
Native Belief System
University of Oklahoma, Explore the cultural uniqueness of American Indians.
Cultural Communication Keys
American Hospital Association, Utilize this infographic on how to overcome vaccine hesitancy among Asian American, Native American and Hawaiian Pacific Islander families.
Immunizations and American Indians/Alaska Natives
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Office of Minority Health, Review the immunization rates of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Alcohol Use Disorder in Tribal Communities
Indian Health Service, Explore alcohol use statistics among American Indians and Alaska Natives and initiatives aimed to combat substance abuse.
A Guide to Understanding Vaccine Beliefs: African and Black American Culture
Understanding Different Cultures
Health Network Solutions, This resource provides guidelines and strategies to improve cultural competency.
What is Black Culture All About?
Dope Black CIC, This resource explains elements that make up black culture.
More than Tuskegee: Understanding Mistrust about Research Participation
National Library of Medicine (NLM), This resource describes results of a qualitative study that explored barriers to research participation among African American adults.
The Crown Act
Legal Defense Fund, This resource provides an overview of the Crown Act.
“It’s Important to Work with People that Look Like Me”: Black Patients’ Preferences for Patient-Provider Race Concordance
National Library of Medicine (NLM), This study examined the association between racial identity and patients’ preference for race-concordant patient-provider dyads and Black patients’ subjective experiences of race concordance.
Black Americans Cite Low Vaccine Confidence, Mistrust, and Limited Access as Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination
Rand, This resource identifies approaches to increase vaccine confidence and uptake among Black Americans.
Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health: Current Status and Efforts to Address Them
KFF Health News, This resource highlights racial disparities in maternal and infant health and ways to address them.
African American
Culture Care Connection, This resource give background on African American culture.
Perspective From a Young Black Woman: Being Black in America
Legal Council for Health Justice, This resource provides an individual perspective on what it's like being black in America.
Test Yourself for Hidden Bias
Learning for Justice, This test measures unconscious or automatic biases.
The origin of black female-headed families
University of Wisconsin, This resource provides a background on the growth of black female-headed families.
Discrimination and Medical Mistrust in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of California Adults
National Library of Medicine (NLM), This resource explores correlates of medical mistrust in a representative sample of adults.
A Guide to Understanding Vaccine Beliefs: Latin American Culture
Latinos often lack access to healthcare and have poor health outcomes. Here’s how we can change that
Brookings, This resource examines health outcomes for Latinos and suggest ways to improve them.
Latino Health Disparities
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), This resource examines health disparities in Latin culture.
Hispanic, Latin@, Latinx or Latine?
University of Missouri, This resource defines common terms used to describe people of Latin decent.
Social Determinants of Health and Health Behaviors of Hispanics
Walden University, This resource examines social determinants of health and health behaviors in Hispanic communities.
Belief and traditions that impact the Latino health care
Louisiana State University, This resource examines how beliefs and traditions in the Latino community influence health outcomes.
Profile of the Unauthorized Population: United States
Migration Policy Institute (MPI), This resources breaks down the percentage of unauthorized people living in the U.S.
In Focus: Identifying and Addressing Health Disparities Among Hispanics
The Commonwealth Fund, This resource examines health disparities in Hispanic communities and suggests solutions.
Many Hispanics lack access to key community determinants of health
American Public Health Association (APAH), This resource discusses the lack of community determinants of health in Hispanic communities.
We need to get more Latinx people vaccinated. Here’s how
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), This resource suggests ways to get more Latinx interested vaccinated.
Latinx Is A Term Many Still Can’t Embrace
NPR, This resource analyzes the reception to the term Latinx.
Latinx
Culture Care Connection, This resource give background on the term Latinx.
Hispanic Heritage Month: 2023
United States Census Bureau, This resource examines Hispanic population numbers.
Hispanic/Latino Health
Office of Minority Health (OMH), This resource breaks down population information for Hispanic/Latino health.
Community-Based Strategies for Improving Latino Health
PolicyLink, This resource provides community-based strategies for improving Latino health.
Think Cultural Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, This website for health care professionals' features information, continuing education opportunities, resources and more to learn about CLAS.
Evaluation of Healthy Fit: A Community Health Worker Model to Address Hispanic Health Disparities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, This resource provides ways to address Hispanic health disparities.
Cultural Health Beliefs and Practices Among Hispanic Parents
Sage Journals, This resource explains cultural health beliefs and practices among Hispanic parents.
A Guide to Understanding Vaccine Beliefs: Older Adult Culture and Vaccines Beliefs
Deepening Cultural Humility
This resource defines and discusses cultural humility, Gerontology Society
Ageism and Psychological Well-Being Among Older Adults: A Systematic Review
This resource reviews well-being among older adults, National Institute of Health
Aging in America: Ageism and General Attitudes toward Growing Old and the Elderly
This resource discusses ageism, Journal of Social Sciences
How Ageism in Health Care Affects Seniors
Ageism can have a negative impact on senior health, but there are many ways to combat ageist attitudes in health care, Senior Living
Talking With Your Older Patients
This resource gives guidance on how to talk to older patients, National Institute on Aging
The 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System
This resource defines the 4M's of an age-friendly health system, National Institute of Health
Get the Facts on Economic Security for Seniors
This resource gives an overview of economic security for seniors, National Council on Aging
Why Vaccinations Are Vital for Older Adults
This resource explains why vaccinations are important for older adults, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
Older Adults
This resource discusses how to properly communicate with older adults, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Vaccination Trends
This resource gives an overview of vaccination trends, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Age-Related Hearing Loss (Presbycusis)
This resource discusses hearing loss, John Hopkins Medicine
Challenges Affecting Health Literacy of Older Adults
This resource discusses challenges affecting health literacy of older adults, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
About Older Adult Fall Prevention