- Websites
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Bilingual site with useful information on immunization and extensive health tips for travelers.
Canadian Immunization Awareness Program
Bilingual immunization site for parents on immunization. Includes questions and answers about immunization, misconceptions about vaccines and vaccine safety.
Canadian Paediatric Society
Immunization information in the "Caring for Kids section" addresses common questions about vaccines.
Centers for Disease Control National Immunization Program
Site outlines the importance of immunization, education and resources, future of vaccines, as well as the safety of vaccines.
Health Canada, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control
Bilingual web for health concerns. Immunization information can be located under "Children".
Immunization Action Coalition
U.S. site includes stories and photos of people with vaccine preventable diseases, vaccine myths and truths, and other useful immunization information.
National Vaccine Program Office
U.S. site with extensive information for parents and the general public on immunization. Includes an overview of immunization, a glossary of terms relating to vaccines, common questions and answers, and information on the safety of vaccines.
Ontario Ministry of Health Immunization fact sheet
Bilingual immunization fact sheets for parents.
World Health Organization
Parents' forum – a host of information geared to answering questions about immunization.
Articles on the Internet
Childhood Vaccinations: What Every Parent Should Know. Readers Digest, Goldbloom RB, May 2000.
Should you vaccinate your child? Canadian Living, Ullyott, Kathy, April 2000.5.6
Books
The Canadian Immunization Guide 2002 published by Health Canada and the Canadian Medical Association.
What Every Parent Should Know About Vaccines by Paul A. Offit, MD., and Louis M. Bell, MD., (IDG Books Worldwide, 1999)
Topics include how vaccines work, practical tips about vaccines, how vaccines are made, travel vaccines for children, and combination vaccines.
Your Child's Best Shot: A parent's guide to vaccination by Ronald Gold, MD., and the Canadian Paediatric Society, 1997.
For more information contact Chatham-Kent Public Health at 519-355-1071, ext. 5900 or online at CKhealth@chatham-kent.ca