Vaccines

Auteur
Kristen A. Feemster, MD, MPH, MSHP, is a pediatric infectious diseases physician and health policy researcher at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the implementation of immunization recommendations, the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases, and vaccine policy. She is Director of Research for the Vaccine Education Center and Medical Director of the Immunization Program at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Dr. Feemster has authored numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts and invited commentaries and regularly provides vaccine education to a wide range of audiences. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children.

Texte du rabat

In the second edition of Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Kristen A. Feemster **offers an accessible overview of the science, manufacture, and culture of vaccines in the United States and internationally, with needed updates in light of rapid advances in vaccine technologies and distribution for recent outbreaks in Ebola and COVID-19.

Résumé
In the second edition of Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Kristen A. Feemster offers an accessible overview of the science, manufacture, and culture of vaccines in the United States and internationally, with needed updates in light of rapid advances in vaccine technologies and distribution for recent outbreaks in Ebola and COVID-19.

Contenu

• Acknowledgments

• Abbreviations

• Introduction

• 1. What Is a Vaccine and How Do Vaccines Work?
• 2. A Brief History of Vaccines
• 3. Vaccine Development
• 4. Vaccine Financing and Distribution
• 5. Vaccine Safety
• 6. The Vaccine Schedule
• 7. Laws and Standard Practices for Vaccine Administration
• 8. Vaccine Hesitancy
• 9. On the Horizon

• Appendix

• Selected Bibliography

• Index