The policy aims to reduce the percentage of children in the United States who receive 0 doses of recommended vaccines by age of 2 years.
The three main areas of the policy include:
1) implement a new policy that allows pharmacists to be more involved with vaccine administration/aiding nurses. Tax exempts for parents who have their children vaccinated. Increase national vaccine coverage to increase the likelihood of parents to vaccinate their children
2) Education/awareness: pharmacists are the easy access point in educating and promoting the importance of vaccination
3) advertisement/promotion: to get accurate information out, to empathize with parents
Please write for the highlighted section in the document uploaded (I have provided the required areas of focus):
Goals (1-2 paragraph): Describe what you hope to accomplish with this policy. Include both short-term and long-term goals that are measurable and have a set time frame.
– Short-term: reduce the rate of children who get 0 vaccines by age of 2 [do some research and insert time frame]
– Need to include ways to measure that reflects accuracy and population presentation
– Long-term: reduce that rate to 0% indefinitely
– Need to include ways to measure that reflects accuracy and population presentation
Inherency (1-2 paragraph): Describe the structural, attitudinal, or other barriers that currently inhibit the implementation of your plan.
– Not everyone goes into a pharmacy
– People who have already gotten their prenatal checkup won’t get additional education
– Policy change can be difficult in general (politics, patient receptions/attitude)
– Attitudinal: when patients are provided with scientific / statistics, it can backfire; so we should make sure education be done properly (can’t attack patient’s feeling, should emphasize this is to protect children, use positive, moral reasons)
– People who do not believe in vaccines can sway the opinions of hesitant parents; but providers can try to build a connection with patients and change their minds
– People who personally had a bad experience with the vaccine could be harder to get the message across
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