TY - JOUR
T1 - Physicians' role in improving adolescent vaccination rates
AU - Craig, Timothy J.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - Over the course of human history, innumerable advances have been made to extend the length and quality of life. It would be difficult to debate the fact that vaccines have saved more lives than any other medical intervention in the past century. Sanitation, especially clean water, may have saved more lives than any other intervention, but sanitation has been mainly in the hands of engineers. Physicians and other health care practitioners, with the help of educators, are responsible for saving millions of lives by vaccinating patients, perhaps as many as 6 million per year.
AB - Over the course of human history, innumerable advances have been made to extend the length and quality of life. It would be difficult to debate the fact that vaccines have saved more lives than any other medical intervention in the past century. Sanitation, especially clean water, may have saved more lives than any other intervention, but sanitation has been mainly in the hands of engineers. Physicians and other health care practitioners, with the help of educators, are responsible for saving millions of lives by vaccinating patients, perhaps as many as 6 million per year.
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U2 - 10.7556/jaoa.2014.042
DO - 10.7556/jaoa.2014.042
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 24765683
AN - SCOPUS:84900872335
VL - 114
SP - S4-S5
JO - The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
JF - The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
SN - 0098-6151
IS - 3 SUPPL. 1
ER -