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Epidemiologic Reviews Advance Access originally published online on June 16, 2006
Epidemiologic Reviews 2006 28(1):1-2; doi:10.1093/epirev/mxj011
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Epidemiologic Reviews Copyright © 2006 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

EDITORIAL

Editorial: Vaccines and Public Health

Michel A. Ibrahim, Editor-in-Chief

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Health workers have known for decades that infant mortality, among all health indices, is an excellent proxy indicator for gauging the socioeconomic and affluence levels of a country. Give me a country's infant mortality rate, and I will place that country in the correct position on the "affluence scale" of nations. Can we make the same observation about vaccination rates and policies? Do these rates and policies give us some indication of the socioeconomic standing of a country, a region within a country, or a racial/ethnic group within a region? Moreover, in this age, we may want to ask another question of immense consequence: Does . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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